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Four Essential Questions about Poetry
Why is ordinary language inadequate to express our deepest thoughts? It isn’t that ordinary language isn’t adequate, but rather that symbolic language and imagery can more efficiently invoke a specific understanding or emotion in the reader. For example, when you read a well crafted metaphor your comprehension of the topic is built upon by bringing… Continue reading
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Eternal Human Themes: Sappho’s Fragments and Rich’s Hubble Photographs
In studying both Sappho’s fragments and Rich’s Hubble Photographs: After Sappho, the legacy of art across decades, strengthened by common human interests, can be observed. Poems as old and incomplete as Sappho’s works could be disregarded in our modern time. Their worth could be questioned after so many years. Yet in Rich’s response to Sappho’s… Continue reading
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My name is Madeline, and I’m a reader and a writer. On this platform I will be sharing my analyses and observations on what I read in addition to some reviews.
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