Saturday, April 20, 2024
When flipping through a book of poems for something to read, it is easy to skip over the long poems that go on for pages and only read the short ones. Who has time to waste on a long poem– or, in this digital age, the attention span? Certainly, short […]
Every year I begin playing Christmas carols on the piano a month or two before December starts, and I am struck once more by the incredible beauty of these hymns. Christmas carols fill my heart with magic not only because of their association with my favorite time of year, but […]
“I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.” When I was young and first came across these lines, I thought, “Oh, what a […]
Broadway fans know the musical Cats by Andrew Lloyd Webber for its famous song “Memory” and for its rather nonexistent plot. With Webber’s repertoire of more successful musicals such as Evita and The Phantom of the Opera, one might have expected more from him. However, unbeknownst to many, the original […]
Many poets and teachers of poetry have proposed definitions, philosophical and logical, for the many-faceted poem. In the modern age, a poem can be as short as two lines, as prosaic as a paragraph, and as grammatical as, well, read a poem by E. E. Cummings for an example. Poetry […]