Peace can be found by treating life as a whole, and not otherwise.
Tag: Poetry
From the Hymn of Empedocles
We overlook everyday beauty dogged by anxiety about the future.
William Blake – The Lamb and The Tyger
I decided to read and record two poems from William Blake’s Songs of Innocence and Experience. I chose the Lamb from the Songs of Innocence and its counterpart the Tyger from the Songs of Experience.
What is the Purpose of Poetry?
Does poetry have a purpose? If so, then what? I noticed today that by far the majority of WordPresss bloggers … More
Crossing the Bar – Alfred Lord Tennyson
Sunset and evening star,
And one clear call for me!
And may there be no moaning of the bar,
When I put out to sea,
Gerard Manley Hopkins – Heaven Haven
I HAVE desired to go
Where springs not fail,
My Old Sweet Etcetera – A Reading
For Eleanor.
This anti war poem, written by American poet EE Cummings and published in 1926, is such a perfect specimen of the genre.
La Belle Dame Sans Merci – John Keats – a Reading
Sometimes sad and sometimes not, our stories and our poems, our Green Ladies and our Belles Dames are reflections of our desires and anxieties.
A reading: Sonnet 18, Shakespeare
Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? A reading.
Shakespeare: Sonnet 18
Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?