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...paced each other throughout the race, but I picked it up around the seventeenth mile and on the hill. I wanted to speed up my miles throughout the marathon,” said Warren...
...world’s best poems” in English, each paired with a brief critical essay, has all the passion and eloquence of the volume’s title. The phrase “break, blow, burn” is drawn from a sonnet by the seventeenth-century poet John Donne, but here it has a decidedly contemporary ring...
...explored in a satisfactory or unself-conscious way. Women seem to have no inner motivations at all, except a heart-felt desire to be long-suffering or mercenary and spunky. This is Laurence Dunmore’s first directorial effort, and he seems obsessed with showing how dirty the seventeenth century was, which I guess is a pretty noble pursuit. Thus, everyone’s hair is disgusting, fingernails are teeming with grime, and the floors are perpetually covered in bodily fluids. England is shown as being encased in a yellow uncertain fog, and over-flowing with perpetual massive orgies...
...section that are either too open-ended to offer a decent response (“What makes this art?”), or worded in such a way that only the TF can possibly answer (“What kind of response might this work have elicited in seventeenth century Amsterdam?”), or so specific and poorly worded that nobody pays attention (“If Iqbal can be understood here to be attempting to confront a history of Muslim warfare and conquest, why is he couching his frustrations in images of nature and, specifically, trees...
...jade vase with nephrite yellow and brown markings—a wine vessel from the early eighteenth century—portrays the yin and yang relationship, with images of the dragon and phoenix on opposite sides. In another handscroll, from the seventeenth century, “The Twelve Zodiac Animals as Poets,” animals are used to reflect cultural symbols. Animals from the traditional Chinese zodiac are satirically dressed in elaborate garments like the stoic Asian poet. The poetry of these famous poets was entered into competitions at the imperial court; simultaneously portraits were erected to depict...