An elegy is written for or about someone who has died, such as "An Elegy for Five Old Ladies" by Thomas James Merton. An epigram, is a poem that is meant to be funny or satirical. See if you can catch the punch line in Stephen Crane's "A Man Said to the Universe." An aubade...
An elegy is written for or about someone who has died, such as "An Elegy for Five Old Ladies" by Thomas James Merton. An epigram, is a poem that is meant to be funny or satirical. See if you can catch the punch line in Stephen Crane's "A Man Said to the Universe." An aubade...
The pandemic is almost a year old (in the US, anyway), and it’s been a horrible year for so many people, including the half-a-million folks who’ve died from Covid, and their families. Then there was the bizarre and unbelievable insurrection on Jan. 6th(Epiphany!), and now the Te...
who did it to frighten the emperor when chiding him. Neither do they delude themselves like some ancient fool who believed in his mental power to become invisible and asked a tiger for its hide. The modern-day experts vacation in the temple, pray at the alter, and sing praises of Nature...
The flood of current changes in the US have consequences for neighboring countries and countries throughout the world.Many have lost their jobs,andmany others have diedas a consequence of the current government administration’s activities. Thenatural world is sufferingas well. It’s ugly and utte...
(One example: William Wordsworth's 1799 poem "She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways," about a recluse who died in seclusion, in which the narrator drops a hint that he may have been her unrequited lover.) The subjects rated the passages on how poetic they seemed and whether or not the ...
We all have experienced someone confusing our intentions with what we said; be’cz they just go by our words and not by the emotions we have paid, Let me take you through a story of he and she who were in a relationship once upon a time; ...
For which reprov'd, as better Fed than Taught, He rightly thus expostulates the Fault. To keep the House from Rascals was my Charge; The Task was great, and the Commission large. Nor did your Worship e'er declare your Mind, That to the begging Crew it was confin'd; Who shri...
As a kid I played until the street lights came on, Sometimes All of us neighbor kids would dig for hours trying to make underground forts or we’d take someone’s wagon and make an airplane out of it, imagining who would be the pilot and the stewardess. We played make believe for hou...
The finished works sit on another side, waiting for their final embellishment, to put on their bridal gowns. Now, a few things are coming to a conclusion. This time when the door opens, there stands someone who has been absent from his life for the past thirty years. His adversary finall...