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Continue reading →: Stuff
I suppose just lifting poems from the MOOC isn’t all that gripping for those loyal readers who want to know the ins and outs of what makes me tick…or is that thick? Learning about poetry does it for me. Not T.S. Eliot or Plath or anything heavy, but the approachable…
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Continue reading →: Thomas Hardy
MOOC poem: The Voice Woman much missed, how you call to me, call to me, Saying that now you are not as you were When you had changed from the one who was all to me, But as at first, when our day was fair. Can it be you that…
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Continue reading →: Loss
Week 3 of my MOOC – a bit of Wordsworth, who lost both parents by the age of 12 and a son to measles aged 4. She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways She dwelt among the untrodden ways Beside the springs of Dove, A Maid whom there were none to…
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Continue reading →: Cannibalism in Sport
Chris Ashton has been suspended from top flight rugby for biting an opponent. One has to ask the question if meat was provided on the sidelines, would rugby players desist from trying to eat other players? It might be problematic having choice cuts in the path of touch judges, so…
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Continue reading →: Love and Death
This week on my MOOC love is the theme, next week it will be death. Robert Burton, a 17th century clergyman and scholar, was discussed in relation to his description of love as a kind of sickness or madness, a commonly held view at the time. Burton’s views on love melancholy ran…
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Continue reading →: Nature Poetry
Adlestrop Yes, I remember Adlestrop- The name because one afternoon Of heat the express train drew up there Uwontedly, it was late June. The steam hissed, someone cleared his throat. No one left and no one came On the bare platform. What I saw Was Adlestrop – only the…
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Continue reading →: Broadside News sung
Manchester Floods – Ballad published 13 July 1872 The thunder rolled, the lightning flashed, The rain came pouring down, And soon the rivers were swollen In country and in town. Still on the mighty water came Where lay the silent dead And soon alas! the coffins were Uplifted from their…
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Continue reading →: Books and Stuff
I am finding it hard to get back into reading on a daily basis. My brain has been fried for one reason or another, that I won’t bore you with, and when my head hits the pillow I’m asleep. Bedtime would usually be my reading time, but when I’m in…
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Continue reading →: Culture
Was it il Duce who said that whenever he heard the word ‘culture’ he reached for his revolver? What is the meaning of culture? Is it “that which is excellent in the arts, manners, etc.”? (a definition gleaned from dictionary.com). Excellence is hard to achieve and requires work. Manners, on…
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