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Hwæt!
To get myself started, I thought I'd share this nifty website I found which allows you to hear audio clips of Beowulf as read by Seamus Heaney (as well as clips of Caedmon's Hymn, among other poetry!). Considering the importance of hearing this sort of poetry aloud, this should be of interest to a few of you! The Beowulf clips are not in its ( Read more... ) -
Complete and utter nonsense!
An escape from reality. That's just what I need right about now. This is what nonsense poetry feels like to me... a vacation. Childhood. Basking greedily in your own thoughts and associations. We were given a list of prominent nonsense poets: Edward Lear, Charles Dodgson (aka Lewis Carroll), and Christian Morgenstern--a scientist, a mathematician, ( Read more... ) -
Not class related, just putting thoughts out there.
I find the entire experience of conversation, of dialogue, to be problematic. The thing is I have entire conversations with people in my head, people I know, I mean, about subjects that really concern me, and in these conversations I express myself clearly and wholly, and they listen attentively and understand. And problems feel solved this way. ( Read more... ) -
If I were only one inch tall, I'd wonder how I got so small.
I'm back, oh, I'm back, did you miss me?
Well, lucky for you (well, lucky for me) I've finally begun to crawl out of my rut, and my wonderfully apropos job has once again given me inspiration to share my thoughts. At the store today (Coles), a woman and her husband came in and asked me if we had anything in the form of poetry appropriate for a ten- ( Read more... ) -
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I am so tired. I will update my journal again soon... but not tonight.
Laura-lei -
Very bold spiders live in my basement...
... they aren't afraid of me being here, and that's the scariest thing of all ( Read more... ) -
"As long as they did it right."
Here's a quick story you may enjoy (but feel free not to):
One thing many of my classes and experience in general has taught me is that language is a funny thing; something that can't always be trusted from one person to the next, and even less reliable when translated between different languages. Much in the way that the Fagles translation of The ( Read more... ) -
"O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!"
As I look at your picture I wish you were here
Those sweet words you whisper I can hear so clear
You're saying you love me and want to hold me tight
You want to be near me and love me tonight
... And you all know how the rest of the poem goes.
Man, if the author of this poem ever stumbled upon our community of blogs, they would feel like the biggest ( Read more... ) -
How did things catch up with me so fast?
I realize most of my group (group C!!) won't get around to reading this before class tomorrow since it's nearly 10:00 on Sunday night, but nonetheless, I'd like to write a little something for the benefit of said group, to be read whenever you guys get around to it.
Hiii *awkward wave*, my name is Laura, and Lorelei is my online alias to keep away ( Read more... ) -
Wowee.
You know, for all the options this thing has, you'd think they'd show me my black background when I'm typing my posts, so that I can change it to the white text I need without it being invisible here. Of course, this means nothing to you, dear reader. For you can only see simple black bkrnd/white text. Also, my first post is now mostly invisible ( Read more... )