The Ninth Edition of A Glossary Of Literary Terms (Abrams) defines it as "the study of the way that sequences of words are ordered into phrases, clauses, and sentences" while John Drury's The Poetry Dictionary describes it as "the arrangement of words in a sentence; the tactics of word order." Lately, the words come up in interviews with poets I've read (Carl Phillips and Linda Gregerson), but I don't really understand how it can operate in a poem--or, I don't know how to use ...
Grr. Scuse the language. I need to vent. So this Saturday is World Book Night. Across the UK 20,000 people will be giving away a total of a million books in the biggest book event the country has ever experienced. Unfortunately the whole event is being run by people with the organisational skills of a llama. On 10th Feb I received an e-mail saying 'congratulations you've been selected as a giver' and I very excitedly began to make preparations for giving ...
Tonight, I decide to be silent Far away from the sky To be a low small tree Not chasing the melody of the wind Nor bewitched by the soft light Bury my root into the earth Keep away from the crowd Hence to associate with the earthworms Choose spring water and soil for food Refuse the stars wrapping around me With colorful clothes Curl up, and bared my branches Look forward to the next spring
A first year student of mine is crying always because his classmates tease him for being a gay. Sometimes, his teachers got angry with him for he cried so loud without thinking that he already distracted the class. Of course, if his subject teacher reported to me that matter, I scolded his classmate/s who made him cry. But everytime I did that, his classmate/s just answered me back that it was him who teased his classmates first. So I returned the blame back to him. One time, during my ...
Nothing is ever that good. When the heart accepts that, one is truly happy. Grateful, even. Reminds me of Descartes: We can only approach the state of perfection. And never, ever reach it. Hence, once can only go as far as happily verging upon.
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