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Michael Gallagher

Senior Lecturer at University of Edinburgh

Michael Gallagher

Senior Lecturer at University of Edinburgh

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And some nights just call for a poem: e.e. cummings

Michael Gallagher January 22, 2011 0 Comments

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…

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Invictus (the poem)

Michael Gallagher July 14, 2010 2 Comments

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…

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Circus Animal’s Desertion by Yeats and constructive language

Michael Gallagher September 21, 2009 0 Comments

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…

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Poem for the Day: W.H. Auden’s “Lullaby”, Andrew Marvell and Marvin Gaye

Michael Gallagher September 9, 2009 3 Comments

Lullaby by W. H. Auden Lay your sleeping head, my love, Human on my faithless arm; Time and fevers burn away Individual beauty from Thoughtful children, and the grave Proves…

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e.e. cummings, opening and closing

Michael Gallagher June 22, 2009 2 Comments

"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…

Michael Gallagher

Senior Lecturer at University of Edinburgh