Archive: Poetry category
Here I am writing plays, but do I actually read any? I realized today that if I don't see what else is out there -- and see it in script form, not just on stage -- then I'm going to get into a rut where I'm effectively writing the ...
After seeing a post a few seconds ago on The Finer Things Club about Friday's Billy Collins reading, I realized that I totally forgot to blog about the reading! And so we get a second post today. :)
So, Billy Collins came to BYU on Friday as part of ...
For the bookworms and bibliophiles among you, ChristianAudio's free audiobook download of the month for January is Milton's Paradise Lost. Nine hours of a British voice (Nadia May's) reading one of the greatest poems in the English language -- it's almost like Christmas all over again. :)
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I've been reading some interviews with poets lately, and it's given me an itch to read more poetry. So yesterday I picked up one of my anthologies (Immortal Poems of the English Language) and opened to a random page. Happened to be Emily Dickinson. Poetry is meant ...
Found an excellent article by Michael Knox Beran entitled In Defense of Memorization. And after reading it I took 15 minutes to memorize Robert Frost's "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening":
Whose woods these are I think I know.
His house is in the village though;
He will not see ...
Last night I memorized Lord Byron's "She Walks in Beauty":
She walks in beauty, like the night
Of cloudless climes and starry skies
And all that's best of dark and bright
Meet in her aspect and her eyes:
Thus mellowed to that tender light
Which heaven to gaudy day denies.
One shade the more, one ray the ...
After watching Willoughby recite a Shakespearean sonnet by heart in Sense and Sensibility last night, I've been taken with the idea of learning poetry by heart. So I started with the scriptures this morning, memorizing part of the Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 6:25-34). Good stuff. I'll ...
