This week’s poem of the week is MACBETH’s famous speech upon hearing of the death of his wife.
Poem of the Week: 9/4/09-9/10/09
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Category Archives: Art
Posts from the Ethereal Land
Due to upgrade in the software, post from around the Ethereal Land are not being automatically pulled like they use to be. Here is a couple of the more noteworthy ones that have been missed.
Gifted (Chicken Man)
The Empty Couch (The Silverware Thief)
Assumptions make a fool out of you (Ape Man)
Of course, many others are not being pulled. Maybe we will get that fixed one day.
Poem of the Week: 9/20/09-9/26/09
This week’s essay of the week calls to mind Kipling’s poem “The White Man’s Burden” in a very ironic way.
The Humor And The Tragedy Of The Irish In One Song
Poem of the Week: 9/13/09-9/19/09
This week’s poem of the week is Death Be Not Proud.
Psalm for a comatose man
I am set apart with the dead,
like the slain who lie in the grave,
whom you remember no more,
who are cut off from your care.
Poem of the Week: 9/6/09-9/12/09
This week’s poem of the week is On the Death of Richard West
by Thomas Gray.
Poem of the Week: 8/30/09-9/5/09
This week’s poem of the week is a short section from Prometheus Bound. To ask you to read the whole thing would be too much. But you ought to at least get an idea of what it is about for your own education.
Poem of the Week: 8/23/09-8/29/09
This week’s poem of the week is “My Creed.” We have selected this mostly for its educational value rather than its standing as art. As hard as it is to believe now, this type of stuff was regularly published in newspapers some 70 years ago. Nowadays, it would be impossible to imagine something like this being published in mainstream newspapers.
Poem of the Week: 8/16/09-8/22/09
This week’ s poem of the week is The City in the Sea by Poe.