Demoniac,Gadarenes,Jesus,Literature,Matthew 8:28,Matthew viii.28,poem,Poetry,Richard Wilbur Rabbi, we Gadarenes Are not ascetics; we are fond of wealth and possessions. Love, as You call it, we obviate by means Of the planned release of aggressions. We have deep faith in properity. Soon...
Tennyson’s poem is the prayer of a “saint” who experiences no contrary desire. It is far more beautiful than Taylor’s conflicted mess. Tennyson’s saint would never call herself, “More blockish than a block.” She is a saint, after all. But that I thinks makes Taylor’s poem mor...
The next day didn't go so well. The full syncs fell over, the database crashed. It had ballooned out to 200 MB (normally was 5 MB). I couldn't start or even start the database server. It was in eternal limbo, unable to sort itself out. It was very frustrating. I tried to le...
Stevens decides to visit his old colleague with the excuse that her letters sound sad, despite her marriage, and begins to think back to the earlier days when Darlington Hall was run like a machine with a full staff. The story is told in Flashbacks with scenes as Stevens remembers them, s...
Alfred Prufrock, a poem by T. S. Eliot, published 1915, marked by weariness, regret, embarrassment, and longing. Why is the novel called The Remains of the Day? A man’s life is shrunk down to the cycle of a single day, in which dawn is birth and evening is late middle age. ...
1662,Anne Bradstreet,Charles II,Massachusetts,poem,Poetry,Puritan Poetry,Restoration,Upon My Dear and Loving Husband His Going Into England Upon My Dear and Loving Husband His Going into England, Jan. 16, 1661.[1] O Thou most high who rulest all, ...
Therefore, the “bright beams” of the first line of the poem concern the glory of Christ to be exhibited on Judgment Day. This exaltation by God of Christ comes in response to contrary powers’ insult of Christ during his humiliation: By proclaiming God’s gift of the name Lord to Jesus...