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Monthly Archives: July 2011
ADLESTROP: Significant Simplicity
There are some poems that seem initially lightweight, but nonetheless remain in the mind because that hasty impression is wrong. In fact the first somewhat negative judgment may be just the reflection of a cultural prejudice that a poem must … Continue reading
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Tagged Adlestrop, June, literary analysis, Nightingale Wood, Philip Edward Thomas, poetry, Robert Frost, simplicity, Stella Gibbons, welsh, writing
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OVER THE SEA TO SKYE
Constantine Cavafy has a poem called simply Ithaka, one of his historical pieces in which advice is given to a traveller setting out on the journey to Ithaka — and the advice is “Hope that the road is long.” The … Continue reading
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Tagged Age, Constantine Cavafy, Hebrides, Ithaka, journey of life, poetry, Robert Louis Stevenson, youth
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