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

Feb 16, 2012

D.H. Lawrence, "Snake"

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   I’ve delayed posting D.H. Lawrence’s “Snake” because it’s fairly long; but the language is accessible and the s...
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Feb 10, 2012

Cat Urine and Aristotelian Tragedy

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The Fall Slopes Can Be Slippery Before I leave the subject of football, something just called to mind a wondrous s...
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Feb 8, 2012

Color Again, Wallace Stevens' "Disillusionment of Ten O'Clock" Again

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  Although I’ve discussed Wallace Stevens’ (1879-1955) “Disillusionment of Ten O’Clock” before (Feb. 11-12, 2010), Banjo52: ...
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Feb 6, 2012

The Super Bowl, True Colors, Poetry

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If the sage, Dirty Harry, is right, and opinions are like . . .  noses—everybody’s gone one, then what kind of blogger fails to comment...
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Feb 4, 2012

HOPKINS, FINALE

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    Before leaving Roethke’s “In a Dark Time,” Hopkins’ “Carrion Comfort” and his other terrible sonnets, I want to say that, ...
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Feb 2, 2012

Poetry, Hopkins, Pitch, Honesty and Trust

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High, Pretty, Alone in the Wind          In Hopkins’ “terrible sonnets,” here is the short passage I find most wrenching and r...
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Jan 29, 2012

Gerard Manley Hopkins' "Carrion Comfort": Unique Agonies

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I think the best of Hopkins’ terrible sonnets is “Carrion Comfort.”  Its diction and imagery may be eccentric and difficult, or even ...
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Michigan, Ohio River Valley, United States
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