The poem is characteristic of Armitage’s conversational style, using colloquialisms and everyday speech patterns alongside vivid imagery to offer a realistic portrait of a person haunted by grief, guilt, and trauma. Read the full text of “Remains” “Remains” Summary The speaker, along with ...
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. ...