Books 01/12/2022 20/08/2020
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“300 Goats” by Naomi Shihab Nye
01/12/2022 “300 Goats” by Naomi Shihab Nye first appeared in the January 2016 issue of “Poetry”. It is a contemporary poem written in unrhymed free verse, with no formal pattern of meter. “300 Goats” has been described as an example of ecopoetry, in that it proposes an attitude of environmentalism toward the natural world, as opposed to passively observing it. In the poem, the speaker is visiting with a friend who keeps goats on a ranch “far from here”. The weather is cold and icy, and the speaker is concerned for the goats’ welfare under such conditions. The poem offers two examples of how human beings perceive the lives of other animals in relation to their own. The speaker anthropomorphizes the goats, projecting her own concerns about comfort and safety onto them, while the speaker’s friend suggests that the goats know how to care for themselves without human intervention. Poet Biography Naomi Shihab Nye is a poet, novelist, and literary ambassador. Born in St. Louis, March 12, 1952, Nye spent her early childhood in Ferguson, Missouri, and spent her high school years in both the Old City in Jerusalem and San Antonio, Texas. She wrote her first poem when she was six, and she has since written more than two dozen books of poetry, three novels, a collection of short stories and multiple essays. She has edited numerous anthologies, including “This Same Sky: A Collection of Poems from Around the World”. Originally from Palestine, Nye’s father and his family left Palestine as refugees after the founding of Israel in 1948. He worked as a journalist and editor. Nye’s mother worked as a Montessori teacher. Nye earned a bachelor of arts degree from Trinity University in San Antonio in 1974. Awards and accolades include four Pushcart Prizes, the Paterson Poetry Prize, the Robert Creeley Award, and the Jane Addams Children’s Book Award. She is a Guggenheim Poetry Fellow, a Witter Bynner Fellow, and a Lannan Literary Fellow. From 2019 until 2021, Nye served as the Young People’s Poet Laureate, designated by the Poetry Foundation. She was named laureate, as well, of the 2013 NSK Neustadt Prize for Children’s Literature and served as a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets from 2010-2015. A self-proclaimed “wandering poet”, Nye is known for poetry that is deeply concerned with place. Her poems and other work address subjects including peace, cultural heritage, and humans’ relationships to the environment and to one another. Poem Text Nye, Naomi Shihab. “300 Goats”. 2016. “Poetry Foundation”. Summary In the poem, the speaker is visiting with a friend who keeps goats on a ranch, some distance from where the poem takes place. The weather is frigid, and the speaker wonders how the goats manage. In a parenthetical, the speaker takes a moment to ponder whether, in the Chinese zodiac, it is the goat or the sheep that is that year’s emblem—the question is whether that year’s animal representative is a “follower or leader”. At this point in the poem, the speaker offers a kind of prayer or wish that the goats find a way to stay warm and out of the “icy wind”. Night is coming on. Eventually, the speaker asks her friend is she is “worried about” the goats. The speaker notes that her friend lives by herself on the goat ranch, which is remote. Her friend, the rancher, assures the speaker that she’s not too concerned about the animals, saying, “they know what to do. They’re “goats””.
"Beowulf" summary
13/11/2022 Beowulf is an epic poem written in Old English by an anonymous author around 1000 AD. Although most of the poem was found intact, some of it was destroyed, probably burned in a fire.
The specificity of modern poetry
03/10/2022 From childhood, we easily memorized poems that figuratively and vividly described events or phenomena. This was due to the rhyme, which introduces regularity and clarity of expression into the poems.
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"State and Revolution", V.I. Lenin
04/05/2022 The book The State and Revolution was written by Vladimir Lenin, a communist revolutionary.
Major art: a book worth reading about the architect Pavel Abrosimov and art
06/12/2021 Today, publishing houses are not so willing to publish books about architectural masterpieces, write even less about famous architects, while works about Soviet urban planning in the era of Stalinism are generally a rarity.
“For Love” by Robert Creeley
25/11/2021 Robert Creeley’s “For Love” (published in 1962 but written earlier), ostensibly addressed to Creeley’s wife Bobbie, starts with a simple premise: I have been thinking about what your love means to me. Through the tangled logic of his heart, however, the poet finally concedes that every stab at defining this emotional experience, itself asserted against a life that is otherwise empty and thin, full of pain and loneliness, in the end frustrates him. Given their grounding in the complexities of the emotions, poets since Petrarch in the 14th century have claimed special ownership of love and its tectonic impact. Creeley’s poem, however, reflects upon what happens when figurative language meets difficult reality: The experience of love—rich with contradictions, essential mysteries—evades language. The poem itself reflects Creeley’s mastery of the spare and austere minimalist language of Postmodernism; his quiet poetics, lines at once complex and elliptical, concise and chiseled, mark Creeley as a poet’s poet. He was prolific (more than 60 volumes of poetry across five decades), but his poems can seem intimidating to a lay reader. However, they have been studied (and imitated) now by three generations of poets and students of poetry, which makes Creeley one of the most influential American poets of the fin-de-millennium. Poet Biography Robert Creeley was born in 1926 in the picturesque town of Arlington just north of Boston. A car accident when he was two required removing his left eye. His father, a respected physician, died two years later. Creeley was raised by his mother, a nurse, who moved with Creeley and his older sister to the rural town of West Acton, about 10 miles west of Boston. The family struggled financially. A precocious reader early on, Creeley published his first poems and essays in his high school literary magazine. Matriculating at Harvard in 1943, he left college to serve in the American Field Services as an ambulance driver in the Burma theater of operations. His return to Harvard after the war was frustrating for Creeley—he felt his poetry was underappreciated by the faculty; he published a scattering of poems in prestigious literary journals and left Harvard without a degree. Eager to immerse himself in the exciting experimental poetry of the post-war, Creeley began what became a lifelong correspondence with Minimalist poet William Carlos Williams, who in turn directed Creeley to Charles Olson, whose concept of “projective verse” became instrumental in Creeley’s evolution. From his teaching post at Black Mountain College in North Carolina, Olson had published radical manifestos that theorized that the time was right for American poets to forsake inherited models of prosody and to shape a defiantly new kind of poetry whose very form would reflect the poet’s convictions and designs. The correspondence deepened into a friendship, and Olson offered Creeley a teaching post at Black Mountain College and an editorship of its avant-garde poetry review. For more than 30 years, Creeley would teach poetry at a variety of university posts, most notably at the State University of New York at Buffalo. During that time, he published poetry collections at the rate of nearly one per year. His poetry grew increasingly more restrained, more suggestive, his sense of tempo and line construction influenced as much by his embrace of the free verse lines pioneered by the Beats as by his intuitive perception of the complex metrics of hard bop jazz. Although many readers found his later poetry arcane and unapproachable, younger poets found his lines mystical and suggestive in ways that echoed Eastern concepts of simplicity and directness. Recognition of his impact and his influence mentoring young poets would come with the 1962 publication of his collected poems, which included “For Love”. His output only increased during the 1970s and the 1980s—indeed, he was awarded the 1999 Bollingen Prize, a sort of lifetime achievement award for poets presented annually by the faculty of Yale University. While serving as writer-in-residence at the prestigious Lannon Foundation in Marfa, Texas, a kind of think tank/retreat for artists, Creeley, a hard drinker and lifetime smoker, died in 2005 at the age of 78 from pulmonary distress. He was buried back home in Mount Auburn Cemetery in Arlington, Massachusetts, his simple marble marker offering quiet advice in his signature preciseness and clarity: “Look at the light of this hour”. Poem Text Creeley, Robert. “For Love”. 1962. “The Poetry Foundation”. The poem is dedicated to Bobbie Louise Hall, Creeley’s second wife, and is presumably addressed to her. The poem opens with a direct expression of intent: yesterday, the poet admits, he tried to speak of “it”, to write about the love between the two of them, that “sense above the others” (Lines 2-3) that means so much to the poet. For the poet, everything he knows “derives” from this emotion and from what it teaches him.
Short stories by Mikhail Zoshchenko
11/11/2021 Zoshchenko was born in 1895 in Ukraine and was a Soviet writer. He was a member of the Serapion Brothers literary group, whose members were strongly influenced by the works of science fiction writer and political satirist Yevgeny Zamyatin.
How to write your first novel? A quick guide for the aspiring writer
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Themes and plots of Krylov’s fables
12/10/2021 IA Krylov wrote more than two hundred fables.
Composition based on Ostrovsky’s play "The Thunderstorm"
12/10/2021 In 1895 Ostrovsky wrote the play The Thunderstorm. Prior to that, the writer arranged for himself travels along the Volga in order to feel the way of life and customs of the inhabitants of local cities. It is noteworthy that serfdom was abolished only in 1861.
"As You Like It" by Shakespeare, analysis by chapter
06/06/2021 A summary of Shakespeare’s play "As You Like It", a list of characters, information about the work - on this page .
"Letter from Birmingham Jail" door Martin Luther King Jr.
30/10/2020 While the letter Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. wrote while imprisoned in Birmingham had a specific purpose in the beginning, it ultimately touches on universal issues of freedom and inequality.
"Republic" Plato
21/08/2020 Plato’s "Republic" defied classification for a long time: it’s a philosophical masterpiece, it’s a sharp political theory, it’s great literature. Although some inconsistencies, philosophical and otherwise, were subsequently discovered, there is no doubt that the " Republic " is a work of genius. Its central concern is the nature of justice. In a word, what is justice? From this general beginning, however, the book diverges on a broader level.
"The Real Life of Sebastian Knight" by Vladimir Nabokov, summary
20/08/2020 The Real Life of Sebastian Knight was written in 1938-1939 and published in 1941. At the time of its writing, Nabokov lived in Paris. According to legend, the book was written while sitting on the toilet, and the board over the bidet served as Nabokov’s desk. It was Nabokov’s first book written in English, and he took it with him to New York.