![]() ![]() Shakespeare uses these devices to also ensure the permanence of his poem, ensuring that it is everlasting and never succumbs to death like his beloved. Several poetic devices enhance the poem’s meaning through the use of form, imagery, and figurative language to express how his beloved possesses an eternal beauty that far surpasses the brightness of that all-too-fleeting summer day. ![]() The poem is straightforward in language and intent. The poet begins with an opening question: “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?” and spends the rest of the poem answering that question. The stability of love and its power to immortalize someone is the overarching theme of this poem. Shakespeare uses Sonnet 18 to praise his beloved’s beauty and describe all the ways in which their beauty is preferable to a summer day. ![]() Poetry Explication: Sonnet 18 (William Shakespeare) ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Romantic-suspense novelist Mary Stewart dies aged 97 by Alison Flood, The Guardian.(from an interview with Mary Stewart by Raymond H. Then one day a friend said to me, everybody who is worth his salt has a Grail, and everybody’s Grail is different. Thank you Mary Stewart for sparking my love for the Arthurian tales. She was a supreme “teller of tales” and her magic brought Merlin and the whole Arthurian world to life in an utterly compelling way. What I (and millions of others) remember Mary best for is her series of Arthurian books The Merlin trilogy: The Crystal Cave, The Hollow Hills, The Last Enchantment – and the later volume on Mordred The Wicked Day. She became well-known for her stories blending mystery, romance, and suspense. This “came as naturally as leaves to a tree”, as she told The New York Times in 1979. Mary started her writing career as a poet, but her husband suggested she try storytelling. Her father, as a young adventurer, had sailed around Cape Horn to New Zealand, where he met and married Mary’s mother. ![]() Mary Florence Elinor Rainbow was born on Septemin Sunderland, County Durham, England. Mary Stewart – author of romantic and suspenseful tales – died recently at the age of 97.Ī quick sortie into her fansite showed me how little I knew about her – there is even a Kiwi connection: ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() One Friday morning, Annabels wish comes true when she wakes up and realizes shes turned into her mother! But after a major washing machine mishap, losing Ape Face, and a terrible teacher conference, Annabel starts to suspect that being an adult is not as much fun as it seems. ![]() If she were an adult, she could do anything she wanted, like watch TV all day and eat marshmallows for breakfast. Shes tired of being told to do her homework, clean up her room, and be nice to her little brother, Ape Face. Annabel Andrews is tired of her mother telling her on what to do. Book Synopsis Like Mother, Like Daughter. About the Book A truly funny story about a (13-year-old) girl who awakens one morning in her mothers body, and-during an incredible day of revelation and opportunity-sees herself as others see her. ![]() ![]() ![]() Themes in Song of the Little Road include the political determination of the domestic sphere, identity formation, and the maintenance of dignity. The autobiographical tale was adapted for film in 1955 with the directorial debut of Satyajit Ray, who would become one of India’s most prominent movie makers the movie is often considered to be India’s equivalent of Casablanca (1943). It takes place in regions that were once considered India, but are now East Pakistan and Bangladesh. ![]() It follows a family’s quest to better their lives by moving from an impoverished Bengal region to the larger city of Kashi/Varanasi in more central-north India. Indian-Bengali author Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay published Pather Panchali ( Song of the Little Road) in 1929. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In The Color of Water, McBride retraces his mother's footsteps and, through her searing and spirited voice, recreates her remarkable story. As a young man, McBride saw his mother as a source of embarrassment, worry, and confusion-and reached thirty before he began to discover the truth about her early life and long-buried pain. "Mommy," a fiercely protective woman with "dark eyes full of pep and fire," herded her brood to Manhattan's free cultural events, sent them off on buses to the best (and mainly Jewish) schools, demanded good grades and commanded respect. The son of a black minister and a woman who would not admit she was white, James McBride grew up in "orchestrated chaos" with his eleven siblings in the poor, all-black projects of Red Hook, Brooklyn. ![]() James McBride, journalist, musician and son, explores his mother's past, as well as his own upbringing and heritage, in a poignant and powerful debut, The Color Of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother. Who is Ruth McBride Jordan? A self-declared "light-skinned" woman evasive about her ethnicity, yet steadfast in her love for her twelve black children. Touches readers of all colors as a vivid portrait of growing up, a haunting meditation on race and identity, and a lyrical valentine to a mother from her son. ![]() ![]() ![]() Proudfit fellow, 1927-28, 1928-29 grants-in-aid for editing Zimmer volumes, 1946-55 National Institute of Arts and Letters grant in literature, 1949, for The Hero with a Thousand Faces Distinguished Scholar Award, Hofstra University, 1973 D.H.L., Pratt Institute, 1976 Melcher Award for contribution to religious liberalism, 1976, for The Mythic Image National Arts Club medal of honor for literature, 1985 elected to American Academy of Arts and Letters, 1987. ![]() President, Creative Film Foundation, 1954-63, and of Foundation for the Open Eye, beginning 1973. Department of State, 1956-73, and at Columbia University, 1959. Lecturer, Foreign Service Institute, U.S. Education: Attended Dartmouth College, 1921-22 Columbia University, A.B., 1925, M.A., 1927, additional graduate study, 1927-28, 1928-29 University of Paris, graduate study, 1927-28 University of Munich, graduate study, 1928-29 independent study of mythology, 1929-32.Ĭanterbury School, New Milford, CT, teacher of French, German, and ancient history, 1932-33 Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, NY, member of literature department faculty, 1934-72. Born March 26, 1904, in New York, NY died October 30, 1987, in Honolulu, HI son of Charles William (a hosiery importer and wholesaler) and Josephine (Lynch) Campbell married Jean Erdman (a dancer and choreographer), May 5, 1938. ![]() ![]() ![]() It’s influences include the classic manga artists Kazuo Umezu and Hideshi Hino, as well as authors Yasutaka Tsutsui and H.P. A masterpiece of horror manga, now available in a deluxe hardcover edition Kurouzu-cho, a small fogbound town on the. Uzumaki, drawn from 1998 to 1999, was adapted into a live-action movie, which has been released in America by Viz Films and Tidepoint Pictures. ![]() Junji Ito debuted as a horror manga artist in 1987 with the first story in his successful Tomie series. According to Shuichi Saito, the withdrawn boyfriend of teenager Kirie. Fall into a whirlpool of terror Uzumaki 3-in-1 deluxe edition includes volumes. Kurozu-cho, a small fogbound town on the coast of Japan, is cursed. As the madness spreads, the inhabitants of Kurôzu-cho are pulled ever deeper into a whirlpool from which there is no return! The bizarre masterpiece horror manga is now available all in a single volume. Uzumaki (3-in-1 Deluxe Edition) Kurouzu-cho, a small fogbound town on the coast of Japan, is cursed. ![]() It manifests itself in everything from seashells and whirlpools in water to the spiral marks on people’s bodies, the insane obsessions of Shuichi’s father and the voice from the cochlea in our inner ear. According to Shuichi Saito, the withdrawn boyfriend of teenager Kirie Goshima, their town is haunted not by a person or being but by a pattern: uzumaki, the spiral, the hypnotic secret shape of the world. Kurôzu-cho, a small fogbound town on the coast of Japan, is cursed. ![]() A masterpiece of horror manga, now available in a deluxe hardcover edition! ![]() ![]() ![]() Yale historian Timothy Snyder thinks we in the West became unreflective, and lazy in our use of language. “How did we enter the contemporary world of polarizing politics and encroaching authoritarianism? All seemed fine after the Wall fell and communism disintegrated-until it was fine no longer. ![]() You can read a résumé of the evening on the website of the Academy. ![]() I wanted to record impressions and parts of Timonthy Snyder’s lecture at the American Academy in Berlin. The walkman stopped working, and it got back into a short-lived existence when I stood on the platform of the S-Bahn station, waiting for the train to get back home. I wanted to record another Letter from Berlin. On a dark and cold Winter’s day I travelled to the very west of Berlin, to Wannsee. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He would be back from India one of these days, June or July, she forgot which, for his letters were awfully dull it was his sayings one remembered his eyes, his pocket-knife, his smile, his grumpiness and, when millions of things had utterly vanished-how strange it was!-a few sayings like this about cabbages. How fresh, how calm, stiller than this of course, the air was in the early morning like the flap of a wave the kiss of a wave chill and sharp and yet (for a girl of eighteen as she then was) solemn, feeling as she did, standing there at the open window, that something awful was about to happen looking at the flowers, at the trees with the smoke winding off them and the rooks rising, falling standing and looking until Peter Walsh said, “Musing among the vegetables?”-was that it?-”I prefer men to cauliflowers”-was that it? He must have said it at breakfast one morning when she had gone out on to the terrace-Peter Walsh. What a lark! What a plunge! For so it had always seemed to her, when, with a little squeak of the hinges, which she could hear now, she had burst open the French windows and plunged at Bourton into the open air. And then, thought Clarissa Dalloway, what a morning-fresh as if issued to children on a beach. 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