Voyages Poem

Thursday, 04 November 2021

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Irish Embassy Commemorates Oscar Wilde's Birthday With Athens Photo

The National Herald 17 Oct 2021

... the birthday of writer Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) in Dublin with an excerpt from his poem "Impression du Voyage" on Twitter..

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Funeral March for the First Cosmonaut: Artist, Poet, and Philosopher Etel Adnan’s Stunning Painted Poem ...

Brainpickings 09 Oct 2021

In this respect, it is kindred to Maya Angelou’s staggering poem “A Brave and Startling Truth,” which voyaged into the cosmos aboard the Orion spacecraft a generation later ... native Beirut, embodying the opening verse of the poem’s third sequence..

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Poetry round-up: Stolen moments and brave imaginings

The Irish Times 30 Sep 2021

a cat’s tongue, in one poem, is “genital pink” ... The best poem in the collection, Spindle, digs into an embittered, striking anger ... The poem turns sharply. ... Swakopmund, the long opening poem, is a haunting sea voyage with echoes of Gerard Manley Hopkins’s Wreck of the Deutschland and Hayden’s Middle Passage ..

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From Boudicca to modern Britain: the dream of island utopias, ruled by women

The Observer 09 Sep 2021

There on page 173, in a piece of trans-historical magic, was the idea I had been groping towards, preserved in an anonymous seventh-century Irish poem, The Voyage of Bran . ... I found them in other early medieval Irish poems; hinted at in the ancient Welsh tales called the Mabinogion ... As with the Voyage of Bran, the epic gives voice to female rebellion.

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The Green Knight Is One of 2021’s Best Movies

The Atlantic 28 Jul 2021

But David Lowery’s adaptation of the epic poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight puts him on a stranger path, a voyage of self-discovery that evokes the original work’s heady mix of chivalry, temptation, and valor while digging into its contradictions ... One of the poem’s most famous translators, J.

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Poem of the week: My Mother says No on Bloomsday by Mary O’Donnell

The Observer 14 Jun 2021

A loosely connected series of poems, narrated by a daughter caring for her widowed mother, are interestingly positioned on this spectrum ... The poems might have protested against exploitation ... They are love poems of a kind ... Molly’s final memories are like “the flowing waters of memory” for the mother in O’Donnell’s poem..

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Juneteenth, sheep & Gene Kelly: 7 top things to do on Cape Cod June 11-17

Cape Cod Times 09 Jun 2021

Voyage, Community, War.” Philbrick’s nonfiction work focuses on the Pilgrims who, over six decades, were part of the Mayflower’s 1620 voyage to the New World, establishing Plymouth Colony, coexisting with Indigenous people, and King Philip’s War.

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Sacrificing Isaac: A personal patriotic reflection | Opinion

Penn Live 31 May 2021

By The Rt. Rev. Nathan D. Baxter. And God said to Abraham take your son, Isaac . . whom you love and go to the (foreign) land of Moriah and offer him as a sacrifice ... . [Genesis 22.2] ... The Rt. Rev ... This optimism is reflected in these lines of a poem my father wrote on his stormy December voyage across the stormy Atlantic from Europe to Boston ... ... The Rt. Rev ... .

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The delightful vacation you can take from your chair

CNN 01 Apr 2021

Even on busy days, reading just one poem can seem to create a bit more internal space, a way to stretch time, just as the daylight time lengthens in spring ... Say the poem, and you can't help but wake your mind and your mouth up a bit ... The beautiful voyage is made of air and sound ... Imagine a voyage powered purely by syllables ... Poems can reroute your day.

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'If you are claustrophobic, you would not like the journey': Meet the adventurer who's become ...

The Daily Mail 25 Mar 2021

Mr Garriott's credentials in this regard are definitely not in question ... 1 2 3 ... Mr Garriott had partnered with The Ideas Foundation and the National Association for the Teaching of English and put a call out before the dive for submissions of cinquains – five-line poems with limited syllables on each line – that he could read aloud during the voyage.

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Why does this activist think a white person can't translate Amanda Gorman?

The Spectator 02 Mar 2021

When Robert Hayden writes about slave-ships in ‘Middle Passage’, it is Hart Crane who pops up, it is his lily-white love-poems, ‘Voyages’, about homosexual sailors shagging and dying at sea, that gets mixed up with Hayden’s hideous cargo of black death and black love.

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Ryan J. Eilbeck goes on a quest to Chillicothe

Columbus Alive 02 Mar 2021

Over the winter, Columbus musician Ryan J ... In particular, he found a Clifford poem titled “Quest”.. My goal out-distances the utmost star,. Yet is encompassed in my inmost Soul; ... This is to discover, I must voyage far, ... “When I found that particular poem, I felt like it was exactly where I was and what I was feeling in my life.

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Helle’s Toilet: Three-Person Loo Seat was Unusual Medieval Status Symbol

Ancient Origins 06 Feb 2021

Helle’s Toilet is the name given to a Medieval toilet seat that was discovered during an archaeological excavation in London ...   ... Ben Jonson, an English playwright and poet who lived between the 16th and 17th centuries, described the river in a satirical poem, On the Famous Voyage , as a place where “Arses were heard to croak, instead of frogs” ... .

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Robert Burns: 4 uncomfortable truths about the man celebrated the world over

Scotsman 25 Jan 2021

He bought a ticket for the voyage following the publication of his first ‘Kilmarnock' poems, but it was the success of the publication that drove him to Edinburgh rather than the Caribbean ... Prof Robert Crawford of St Andrews University described what was essentially a love poem ...

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The best free Kindle books for 2020

Digital Trends 30 Nov 2020

After being stricken by measles and subsequent vision damage while attending Harvard, Dana enlisted as a sailor on a two-year voyage around Cape Horn on the brig Pilgrim ... The epic poem, a follow-up to the Iliad, traces Odysseus’s 10-year return voyage to Ithaca following the Trojan War.