We cannot expect to see him a completed being, when the mass of men lie so entangled in the sod, or use the freedom of their limbs only with wolfish energy. The tree cannot come to flower till its root be freed from the cankering worm, and its whole growth open to air and light....
each poisoned eye a blackberry. I was pelted with a shower of fruit from a bare blackthorn tree. I heard the chick sing in the egg, and the straw in the mattress grew, the raspberry cried in the jam. But I came safe from these shades, out of the battle-noise gales, until I ...
CHAPTER 21 THE POISONED PLOT 1753 AD The conflict about wreaking revenge and turning the other cheek continues but violence prevails. In a soul’s evolution, early incarnations entice one through free will to explore hate rather than love, evil rather than goodness and many other negative experien...
Much likeJonathan Safran FoerusedStreet of Crocodilesto create his brilliantTree of Codesliterary remix andCharles Darwin’s great-granddaughter adapted the legendary naturalist’s biography into verse, Roth scoured public domain texts and various translations of Kafka to find the perfect works for his ...
This simile concludes a poem entitled What the Weather is Like. Lodged like a marble in a crack —James Crumley Loitered like a school child —Jean Stafford (A cold notion flew into my brain and) squatted there like a buzzard, patient, in a tree —George Garrett Stalling like a Scotch...
(and nearby Guadeloupe) were exposed to the pesticide, which poisoned the soil and freshwater, and islanders have some of the highest rates of prostate cancer in the world. Research shows the two to be linked, and a case was taken to court, which eventually legislated in favour of the ...
[Thechalice comes in many iconic forms, none more so than the Holy Chalice, or Holy Grail, said to have been used to dispense its sacred content at the Last Supper. Whether the above title prompts this as your first thought orwhether it is the ‘poisoned’ variety, it is for you to ...
“Snake poisoned me.” Shock flashed through her eyes and she scowled. “I see. You won’t be leaving on schedule.” His head spun, started to ask what schedule, but stopped himself. Whatever the answer no longer mattered. “Xhosa. Snake killed me. Well, there are treatments for Snake...
‘The Garden of Love’ and ‘A Poison Tree’ Indeed, in the same book Gillham makes a similar argument about a number of other Blake poems, such as ‘A Poison Tree’: in that poem, the speaker grows a poisoned apple with which to tempt his foe, and is victorious when his enemy ste...
Janet Frame interweaves her classic cynical style of writing into her poems ‘Rain on the Roof’, ‘The Tree’ and ‘The Chrysalids’ and explores many of the unspoken, hard truths of humanity. Frame characteristically utilizes language techniques of first-person narration, vivid imagery with ...