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

Dec 22, 2011

"A Hole In The Floor," by Richard Wilbur. Dana Gioia and Randall Jarrell

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  A Hole In The Floor by Richard Wilbur In case anyone has become interested in Richard Wilbur as a result of my last...
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Dec 19, 2011

Richard Wilbur's "The House": Elegy and Sensibility

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  At the risk of sounding hyperbolic, I think anyone working on an elegy for a deceased lover can stop now. Go watch TV; eat some po...
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Dec 13, 2011

"End of Summer" by Stanley Kunitz

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End of Summer by Stanley Kunitz : The Poetry Foundation Although Stanley Kunitz’s poem is technically about the en...
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Dec 11, 2011

"Lines for Winter" by Mark Strand

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Lines for Winter by Mark Strand : The Poetry Foundation We talked a bit about Mark Strand's poem last January, but it deserves more th...
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Dec 7, 2011

Mary Oliver, William Logan: Tenderness, Meanness, and How Much Is Enough

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White-Eyes by Mary Oliver : Poetry Magazine NEW CRITERION,   December 2008 Shock & Awe    by William Logan   One of my...
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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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Michigan, Ohio River Valley, United States
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