More Poems and Writings Monday, December 23, 2024 It has often been said that the pen is mightier than the sword because of the awesome impact that words can have upon people. It follows that poetry is perhaps the most powerful of all writing because of the ability of a few well phrased...
Why All Poems Are Political Unregulated and innately radical, poetry is an urgent expression of freedom Note: In September 2016, I began a fellowship at Harvard University’s Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, an opportunity to spend nine months in Cambridge, Massachusetts, as part of a grou...
Boyd's engagements reflect the priorities of contemporary humanist interpretations of the Heroides , on the one hand positioning Ovid's poems as models for elegant Latin verse composition, and on the other reading them as guides to female sexual (mis)conduct. Such an approach tended to reinforce...
These major political satires are accompanied in this edition by six essays and two poems, which the intrepid Hossain wrote over a period of seventeen years. Interwoven through her writings are ideals that endure even today: education and emancipation for women, dignity for those living in the su...
【130】(Political history presupposes that freedom and empire are, not unreasonably, mankind's great objectives — that freedom and empire are legitimate objects of admiration. Freedom and empire elicit the greatest efforts of large bodies of men. That greatness is impressive. That greatness can ...
一、政治哲学问题【政治哲学与善】雅典与耶路撒冷。“所有政治行动的目标不是保守就是变革。当渴望保守时,我们希望不要变得更糟;当渴望变革时,我们希望能带来更好的东西。所有的政治行动因而都由某种更好或更糟的思想引导。但关于更好或更遭的思想隐含着关于善的思考。引导着我们所有行动的对善的意识具有意见的特点...
Political cartoon, a drawing (often including caricature) made for the purpose of conveying editorial commentary on politics, politicians, and current events. Such cartoons play a role in the political discourse of a society that provides for freedom of
“national” experience. It is American art before it is the culture of the United States. Even if it is true that these habits of retreat are, in turn, themselves in part traditions, and culturally shaped, it is also true that the leastilluminatingway to approach the poems ofEmily ...
In 2021, Douma published a collection of poems entitled “Curly”, writtenwhile he was held in solitary confinement. The collection was displayed at that year’s Cairo International Book Fairbefore being quickly pulled for “security reasons”.In one of his poems from prison, Douma writes: “...
new life by local communities determined to preserve a typical part of British life. In Waterperry, a small village near Oxford, the 120 residents have filled the phone box next to the old house with a pot of flowers, piles of gardening and cooking magazines, and stuck poems on the walls...