Each week, I enojy finding something unique to discuss as I feel that there are so many interesting examples out there. I stumbled across this one at www.poemhunter.com when the title caught my eye. I opened it up and read it, thought it was wonderful, then thought, "E.E. Cummings? Why does that name sound so familiar?" (As most of you know, I am ( Read more... )

I will admit, although I usually prefer not to tell anyone until after, that my twentith birthday is this coming Saturday. And my oh my, do I not only feel like writing about it, but I despise it's arrival. Why? Well, without naming names or giving too much detail, I'll say that life changed awfully fast and is just not the same without a certain ( Read more... )

Well, happy New Year everyone! I hope you all have been abole to start 2006 the way you wanted to and that life is treating you all perfectly. Today, I was sitting in the lecture and thinking about the use of poetry in drama (according Professor Kuin's lecture), then my mind began to wander from drama to the stage and the stage to music and then ( Read more... )

No Christmas Tree Where It Should Be
David Keig

A Christmas tree! A Christmas tree ( Read more... )

Well, only a month and a few days away before Christmas is upon us. It can be a little stressful at times when it is thought about...the fact that it can loom so quickly over our heads after it has snuck up on us. If only we could have taken our cue from the incessant Bing Crosby and that voice of his reverberating throught every store by mid- ( Read more... )

I am so completely tired. This time of year is always particularily hectic and chaotic. The pressures of school work as our last month before the Christmas exam period is here, the yearly craziness of Christmas and the holiday season (which seems to last forever) and just life in general. So, here is a poem that I not only found easy to read, but ( Read more... )

If You Bump Into a Soul
by John Tiong Chunghoo

If you bump into a soul ( Read more... )

I have such a problem regarding this term. Why is nonsense poetry considered and given the name of "nonsense?" The main issue I have with it is that I don't believe that it is nonsensical at all, for every bit of either has a meaning or makes perfect sense anyway. So, who is it to say that The Owl and the Pussycat or Jabberwocky is what the ( Read more... )

NOTE: I'm in no way saying that elephants are graceful and have the finesse of dancing cat on a fence...

...But, Hilaire Belloc's poem of The Elephant is the perfect example of what excellent balance of stresses and non-stresses can do for such a simple poem. I always imagine that poems such as his would have been used during Belloc's time in ( Read more... )

Alright. Well, I was planning on writing about the "and then" syndrome (also known as Paratactic), however, Rosita placed a link on her site that I wish to discuss instead ( Read more... )