I won’t preface this poem too much with explanation or emotional context or anything like this, but it seemed fitting that my first post (belated) of 2011 should be a …
Invictus (the poem)
This might go down as my most unoriginal blog post to date, but I was struck by a poem referenced several times in the Invictus movie from Clint Eastwood and …
Circus Animal’s Desertion by Yeats and constructive language
Yeats‘ poem as presented below is illustrative of the constructive nature of discourse (and what is poetry aside from a complex discourse at the very least with one’s soul); language …
e.e. cummings, opening and closing
“somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond any experience,your eyes have their silence: in your most frail gesture are things which enclose me, or which i cannot touch because they …