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Showing posts with label Words. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Words. Show all posts
Saturday, May 19, 2018

Addition to Strings of Thought 5-19-2018

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Hermeneutics                                 To Gadamer Though eye must squint, eye must explore the bird Who plays at the horizo...
Wednesday, February 7, 2018

Addition to "Strings of Thought" (2/7/18)

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2/7/18 A legislative bill or other proposal isn’t simply a string of words on a page. Instead, a legislative bill or other proposal involve...
Sunday, January 21, 2018

Addition to "Strings of Thought" (1/21/18)

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Speaker Meaning 1/21/18 “Original” speaker meaning includes the unexplored.  Imagine I buy a netted device I categorize as “my hammock...
Monday, July 10, 2017

President Trump & Word Association

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As a lover of words, I am of course interested in the following Quinnipiac poll which asked responders "What is the first word that co...
Sunday, February 5, 2017

Ekphrasis & Prose: Sonnet Translations of Poe & Hawthorne

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I sometimes wonder whether a prose piece should have been verse from the outset.  Could the deep meaning have been more effectively capture...
Sunday, October 2, 2016

Blake Within Blake Within Blake Without End

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As I have written before , the great William Blake magnificently employed signs beyond mere words in his poetry.  His powerful illustrati...
Sunday, September 25, 2016

Beyond Words Alone: Poets as Artists of the Intentional

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  In his wonderful The New Book of Forms , Lewis Turco tells us that poets “ focus on mode , on language itself.”   Focusing ...
Monday, July 11, 2016

Wittgenstein's Sonnet: No Pictures See Themselves (Addition to "The Apology Box")

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     Wittgenstein’s Sonnet When I was young, words worked a different way. We hung them round like pictures on a wall To replica...
Thursday, June 30, 2016

Ishmael's Sonnet: Built As "Normal" Boys (Addition to "The Apology Box")

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            Ishmael’s Sonnet                          They called me Ishmael.   I was a first Who wrestled with the "bastard...
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Tuesday, June 28, 2016

Witch of Endor's Double Sonnets: I Accept No Words for Me Except My Own (Addition to "The Apology Box")

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    Witch Of Endor’s Double Sonnets                             I. I can't deny that I've known sorcery. Men's words ...
Monday, June 27, 2016

Ezekiel: The Universe Leaps Over Heart & Head (Addition to "The Apology Box")

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Ezekiel’s Double Sonnet                                                                             (A prophet of the exile)              ...
Sunday, June 19, 2016

Daniel: Nighttime Hieroglyphics in the Head (Addition to "The Apology Box")

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        Daniel’s Sonnet    (A Jew “exiled” in Babylon) Through deepest faith, I tapped night's lexicon That Nimrod changed. ...
Tuesday, June 14, 2016

Old Testament Words & Rhetoric: Ehud, Elisha, & Jonah (Additions to "The Apology Box")

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           Ehud’s Solid Rhetoric      (Left-handed judge who killed Fat King Eglon) Somehow it seems we have reversed our roles. ...

Abelard: The Peril & the Price of Careless Thought (Addition to the Apology Box)

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                         Abelard’s Ballade Thought is the cruelest place where charts mark no Fixed latitude or constancy of shore...
Saturday, June 11, 2016

Confucius and Lao Tzu (Additions to "The Apology Box")

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            Confucius’s Sonnet Mere force brings no true order since forced change Warps from without and thus can never fit A...

Boethius, St. Ambrose, and Marcion the Docetist (Additions to "The Apology Box")

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                Boethius's Sonnet Was Theodoric’s prison in the end That proved the real academy.   Was there They taught first...

Cyrus and Esther (Additions to the Apology Box)

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     Cyrus The Great’s Proof It’s wrong to disown any family. We must be fair in hospitality To every member. We may not despi...