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

Jul 25, 2014

The Chipping Sparrow and Richard Wilbur's "Still, Citizen Sparrow" Again

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On my walk today, I saw a new bird. He's not rare, but he was my first Chipping Sparrow. (Someone please correct me it that's inco...
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Jul 12, 2014

Guns and Morons, plus Chase Twichell's "Stripped Car"

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aka Peace and Wisdom Party Thirty seconds of this video conveys plenty, but I’m a masochist and watched all four minutes. The film want...
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Jun 28, 2014

Phillip Levine, "Coming Close": Labor and Place

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Here is former Poet Laureate, and native Detroiter, Phillip Levine with a portrait of women who labor. Really labor.   Would you ag...
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Jun 16, 2014

Hannah Gamble's "Growing a Bear": Entertainment and Art

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First a note on the photos: which of these women might be the poem's speaker? Now, on to the work itself. http://www.poetryf...
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Jun 6, 2014

D.H. Lawrence's "Bavarian Gentians" and Dylan Thomas, Follow-up

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Here is D.H. Lawrence’s poem, “Bavarian Gentians.” I think I know why it came to mind as I talked last time about Dylan Thomas a...
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May 28, 2014

Spring and Dylan Thomas' "The Force that through the Green Fuse Drives the Flower"

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I'm pretty sure I was a college freshman when I first encountered Dylan Thomas' "The Force that through the Green Fuse Drives ...
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May 26, 2014

The Great Speckled Bird . . . Is a Robin?

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I'd like to think this is the bird in the gospel song: What a beautiful thought I am thinking Concerning a great speckled bird. It c...
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