Word: poemes
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...Conference two weeks earlier, he worried that his chances of publishing anything were slim, because he had no “special hook or angle.” Bowing his head at the beginning of the meeting, though, Keith heard his fellow Rotarian J. Kenneth Sanders recite a poem he attributed to Mother Teresa. Suddenly, Keith realized that the words were his own, a set of 10 “paradoxical commandments” written in his sophomore year at Harvard as part of a Harvard Student Agencies-published booklet for student council leaders called “The Silent...
...English seminar that week, Laura was asked to write about a recent event. She responded with an angry poem addressed to her father’s shooter, which ended with the promise, “this hand will find you / I am his daughter.” In a recent interview with The Crimson, she recalled the emotional roller coaster she was on as she wrote the poem, her sense of confusion and powerlessness, as though her entire world had been turned upside down. The poem disguised her fears beneath a façade of anger and threats...
...another classically themed poem, “The Wife of the Man of Many Wiles,” Penelope—for nearly three thousand years regarded as the archetype of a faithful spouse—indicates to Odysseus, her husband, that she may not in fact have been as faithful as he, and Homer, thought. The poem drives its point home with a jarring conclusion, with Penelope telling Odysseus to “Kill all the damned suitors, if you think it will make you feel better...
...Machines Mourn the Passing of People,” for instance, a poem that inevitably calls to memory (and was perhaps inspired by) that staple of high school English curricula, Ray Bradbury’s short story “There will come Soft Rains,” Stallings assumes the voices of machines that have outlived their human masters to reflect on some of humanity’s quirks from the perspective of an outsider...
...rather diverse themes, it is that Stallings deftly takes something that the reader (presumably) knows well and uses it to reflect on a deeper philosophical theme. The well-known story of Penelope, for example, is turned on its heels as Stallings reflects on relationships and fidelity; In a poem entitled “The Dogdom of the Dead,” Stallings draws some remarkable parallels between the deceased and pet dogs in order to reflect on how we are affected by the death of loved ones...