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    0 starseric | Shared With: Everyone - Nov 28 2007 | video, Dylan Thomas, literature, poetry, thepugetnews
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    A beautiful VW commercial with Dylan Thomas's "Under Milk Wood" as the soundtrack.

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    5 starseric | Shared With: Everyone - Aug 19 2006 | favorites, literature, poetry, T.S. Eliot

    "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" by T.S. Eliot has long been one of my favorite poems.

    For some reason, I brought it up while wakeboarding by mentioning a quote from it about choice. That was enough to make me want to go read it again. Here it is, in all its glory.

    Quoted: Do I dare
    Disturb the universe?
    In a minute there is time
    For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse.

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    5 starseric | Shared With: Everyone - Jan 31 2006 | poetry, Arthur O'Shaughnessy, Ode, literature, literary, books
    Representative Poetry Online -- Arthur O'Shaughnessy : Ode

    Dan Rather read a snippet of this poem when he was in town last week. He appeared to get choked up while reading it. I wonder what personal meaning the poem has for him? It's a wonderful poem though, it's even quoted by Gene Wilder in the original "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" movie.

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    Jun 10 2009

    Now a book of the same title.

    Quoted:As a natural-born child of the meritocracy, I'd been amassing momentum my whole life, entering spelling bees, vying for forensics medals, running my mouth in mock United Nations meetings and model state governments and student congresses, and I knew only one direction: forward, onward. I lived for prizes, praise, distinctions, and I gave no thought to any goal higher or broader than my next report card. Learning was secondary; promotion was primary. No one had ever told me what the point was, except to keep on accumulating points, and this struck me as sufficient. What else was there?

    Quoted: We laughed at the notion of "authorial intention" and concluded, before reading even a hundredth of it, that the Western canon was illegitimate ... we skipped straight from ignorance to revisionism, deconstructing a body of literary knowledge that we'd never constructed in the first place

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