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MADNESS IN THE FAMILY: MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT VERSUS PERCY SHELLEY!
Hey. It’s Wollstonecraft. Don’t mess with her. WOLLSTONECRAFT: Milton describes our first frail mother, though when he tells us that women are formed for softness and sweet attractive grace, I...
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THE PROBLEM WITH RHETORIC
The problem with any argument, whether it be by politician, philosopher, priest, or poet, is this: any argument will always be prejudiced by its conclusion. A good argument, we think, leads to its...
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BECAUSE YOU DO NOT SPEAK
Because you do not speak, You are the one I seek. You spoke to me before And now, in the cold mist, I wander the cold shore. Cordelia said little to her father, the king, A little more than nothing;...
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MADAME DE STAEL TANGLES WITH THOMAS PEACOCK IN THE ROMANTIC BRACKET
Germaine de Stael: her daddy was finance minister for Louis XVI of France DE STAEL: Man’s most valuable faculty is his imagination. Human life seems so little designed for happiness that we need the...
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JUST BEFORE DAWN, BIRDS SINGING
As the present presently becomes the past, It is no longer a question of when or how fast Will this fade, will we die, for nothing can last At all; death is already here; all that is known is past....
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BEAUTIFUL AND TRUE
Was I the one who leaned into your life— Protected, soft, and safe from strife? Was it I who entered the door of your mind, Disrupting its innocence with ideas unkind? Was I the one who hunted the...
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THE ONE HUNDRED GREATEST ROCK SONGS OF ALL TIME
It is difficult to put rock music in perspective. Sure, smart people have written about rock music, and rock music is very popular, and has been so popular for so many years that old rock songs are...
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J. L. AUSTIN AND FRANTZ FANON IN FIRST ROUND POST-MODERN ACTION
Fanon: Saw 9/11 coming in the 1950s AUSTIN: Philosophers have assumed utterances report facts or describe situations truly or falsely. In recent times this kind of approach has been questioned—in two...
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FRIEDRICH SCHLEIERMACHER BATTLES S.T. COLERIDGE IN ROMANTIC BRACKET
Schleiermacher: Common sense alternative to the New Critics and other text-obsessed thinkers. SCHLEIERMACHER: As every discourse has a two-part reference, to the whole language and to the entire...
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YOU BETTER PUT ME DOWN FOR ONE
Complexity was my delight; When the shadow had a name, I got the shadow right, And all around my cunning memory The people honored me. But that was under a different sun. You better put me down for...
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ALL FICTION IS NON-FICTION
For the most wild, yet homely narrative which I am about to pen, I neither expect nor solicit belief. –E.A. Poe, “The Black Cat” Laura Runyan, an MFA Fiction graduate and occasional visitor to this...
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100 ESSENTIAL BOOKS OF POETRY
Collecting is where material pride, wisdom and love uneasily sit, an endless pursuit which moves product, an endless boon to any enterprise. To collect is to amass, to buy, to own, to bring into...
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IS A POEM A PERSON OR A THING?
All poets I know would say a poem is a thing, A piece of rich imagining, A thing other things are holding For some other time. A life, a soul, a rhyme. But I know a poem is a person, I know this poem...
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WHAT REJECTS IS WHAT LOVES
When the sun confuses the sky, And the warmth and the shades and the light Which shouldn’t exist, springs into sight, I have my opinions of you anyway, Which I ponder in secret agony Despite the...
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FREUD VERSUS TROTSKY IN THE MODERN BRACKET
FREUD: It is never possible to be sure that a dream has been completely interpreted. Dreams reproduce logical connection by simultaneity in time. Here they are acting like the painter who, in a...
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HEGEL TAKES ON WORDSWORTH IN ROUND ONE ROMANTIC BRACKET ACTION
G.W.F. Hegel. In the 20th century, his Continental Idealism lost to Anglo-American Pragmatism. HEGEL: A work of art is a product of human activity, and this activity being the conscious production of...
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DANTE VERSUS DRYDEN
John Dryden, the first Poet Laureate of England DANTE: Exposition must be both literal and allegorical. To convey what this means, it is necessary to know that writings can be understood and ought to...
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TEN BEST REASONS TO RHYME
Would rhyme have saved them? 10. THE CHALLENGE FACTOR –Because it is very difficult to do well. Can YOUR ass do it? 9. THE CAUSE AND EFFECT FACTOR–One cannot rhyme well without comprehending and...
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BOCCACCIO BATTLES SIDNEY
Philip Sidney: loved Christ, poetry and Plato BOCCACCIO: They say that poetry is absolutely of no account , and the making of poetry a useless and absurd craft; that poets are tale-mongers, or, in...
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