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

Apr 29, 2012

JOHN CROWE RANSOM’S “BLUE GIRLS”

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I’ve postponed posting John Crowe Ransom’s “Blue Girls” because I assumed a lot of people would scream “Sexist!” and be done with i...
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Apr 26, 2012

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Here are some thoughts about Josephine Jacobsen’s “In a Motel in Troy, N.Y.”  without reference to Zeus as a swan raping ...
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Apr 25, 2012

Josephine Jacobsen, "In a Motel in Troy, N.Y.": New Poem, Old Issues

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IN A MOTEL IN TROY, N.Y. by Josephine Jacobsen Following yesterday’s prelude, here is Josephine Jacobsen’s fine poem, “In a...
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Apr 24, 2012

Yeats' "Leda and the Swan" as Prologue

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In the context of writing about endings of poems, I said a bit about Yeats’ “Leda and the Swan” back on July 11, 2011. You don'...
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Apr 17, 2012

Anne Sexton and Deborah Digges See Things

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Cardinal Singing Song Sparrow Singing     Humans have been asking forever just what imagination is, what it brings to the table,...
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Apr 11, 2012

Deborah Digges, "Vesper Sparrows" and "Darwin's Finches"

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Song Sparrow                                                                       http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID...
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Apr 4, 2012

Kid with a Bike: Movie Review

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( Le Gamin au vélo, French subtitles) Samantha  -   Cecile De France Cyril – Thomas Doret Kid with a Bike is...
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