Banjo52

Conversation. Especially literature and language, education, football and baseball, movies, history, then and now, birds, two-lane roads. "Banjo" is a fun word, and the instrument can make fine music. But this isn't really a blog about banjos, except in the metaphorical sense of interesting sounds riding across a valley from one porch to another. Click on any photo to enlarge. Students, remember to footnote. All text and photos: © 2009-2014 Banjo52

Nov 26, 2011

BROWNING’S “MY LAST DUCHESS” (with “JANET WAKING”)

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At the risk of obsessing about John Crowe Ransom’s “Janet Waking” (11/20/11), I still wonder if I'm hearing the poem accurate...
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Nov 20, 2011

Hopkins' "Spring and Fall" with Ransom's "Janet Waking": Children, Mortality, Wisdom

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G.M. Hopkins’  deservedly famous autumn poem, “Spring and Fall to a Young Child,” raises a question for me:  how critically may an adul...
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Nov 17, 2011

"Love Song" by William Carlos Williams

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Nov. 1, 2011 Amy Lowell, here’s another view of the color yellow, and it’s not entirely different from your take, posted here the othe...
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Nov 16, 2011

"In November" by Lisel Mueller

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Willow, Mid-November  Here is a quiet and positive poem, which suits the season. In November by Lisel Mueller : The Poetry Foundat...
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Nov 13, 2011

AMY LOWELL, SOME FOLLOW UP

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"Autumn" remains my favorite of the dozen or so Amy Lowell poems I've read in the last few days, but here is another with meri...
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Nov 9, 2011

John Keats and Amy Lowell, Day Two: Yellow, Yellow, Yellow

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To keep the comparison in mind, here again are both poems from yesterday: To Autumn by John Keats (1795-1821) Season of mists and me...
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Nov 8, 2011

John Keats, "To Autumn," and Amy Lowell "Autumn," Part One

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To Autumn by John Keats (1795-1821) Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness,    Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun; Conspiring...
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