Poems Sublime And Ridiculous

Author : Lois Kempton
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1438931875

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Poems Sublime and Ridiculous by Lois Kempton Pdf

The people of Scerone gathered in the Ring of Challenge. They had come to witness the passing of their beloved Amulet from one Guardian to the next, as well as the fulfilling of the ancient prophecy that would unite the two great powers of their land. But instead, betrayal and subterfuge plunged their world into chaos. The Amulet, (a powerful talisman that holds most of their world's magic) is sentenced to fifty years of silence, and worse, helplessness. The talisman is secreted away, hidden from the treacherous Queen whose one desire is to claim its powers as her own. For fifty years the power of the Amulet is trapped within the golden walls of its domain, waiting for the time when it can summon the next young woman who will serve as Guardian and wield its power. Jessica Spencer cannot explain the recurring dream that beckons to her. Every morning the message of the dream is lost leaving her with an aching desire to fulfill a fate she cannot even remember. Fifty years later, they gather once again in the Ring of Challenge, hoping to see an end to the reign of terror that began with the silencing of the Amulet half a century ago. The High Queen, who desires nothing more than to weild the power herself, the fair-haired child who is slowly realizing the fate her dreams have only hinted at, their Protector and Champion come together in the Ring of Challenge to once again decide the destiny of the Scerone. Fair-haired child full of grace

Author : Terri Powers,Theresa Powers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2003-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 141078987X

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Sublime to Ridiculous by Terri Powers,Theresa Powers Pdf

Author : Dana Leipold
Publisher : Createspace Independent Pub
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2011-11-01
Category : Humor
ISBN : 1466271078

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Stupid Poetry by Dana Leipold Pdf

Take ordinary or inane subjects then immortalize them into a poem worthy of Dr. Seuss' beloved rhymes. Add a dash of sarcasm and a pinch of cynicism—and that's a stupid poem. The whole point is to show how incredibly mundane most things are within the context of a rhyming nightmare. Stupid Poetry: The Ultimate Collection of Sublime and Ridiculous Poems covers everything from doing the laundry to politics to toddler tantrums to colonoscopies. Find yourself a quiet place to enjoy these silly poems and bask in the stupidity.

Author : Ashley Burgoyne,Melissa Collin
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 86 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2018-05-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1987613791

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The Sublime and the Ridiculous by Ashley Burgoyne,Melissa Collin Pdf

From birds and beasts, fairy tales, dreams and flights of fancy to harsh reality, this weird and wonderful collection of poetry takes you on an emotional journey through life. Birth, growth, love and loss are explored through humour, high drama and tight poetic forms. It is a unique poetic journey that is, like life, sublime and ridiculous.

Author : Susan Blood
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1997-04-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0804780862

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Baudelaire and the Aesthetics of Bad Faith by Susan Blood Pdf

This is a study of Baudelaire's canonization in the critical debates of the twentieth century, focusing particularly on his role in the development of a modernist consciousness. Much recent work on Baudelaire assumes his modernism by emphasizing his relationship to current critical preoccupations—by sounding him out on issues of race and gender, for example, or by "correcting" his politics. The author begins from the premise that this updating of Baudelaire mistakenly takes him for our contemporary. Instead, she attempts to treat modernism as a historical problem by seeing Baudelaire as engaged in a more difficult dialogue with twentieth-century critics. The book concentrates on two key moments in the literary history of the twentieth century, the periods following each world war. At these junctures French intellectuals intensely reconsidered their cultural patrimony and articulated something like a modernist consciousness. Baudelaire stood at the center of this process, becoming a sacred figure of modernism, and his poetry contributed to a radical reorienting of aesthetic sensibilities. For the post-World War I period, the author focuses on Paul Valéry's essay "Baudelaire's Situation"; for post-World War II, on the virulent debate between Jean-Paul Sartre and Georges Bataille over the question of Baudelaire's "bad faith." She argues that Sartre's resistance to the sacralization of Baudelaire and to the continuing formulation of a modernist ideology actually suggests a valuable way of rethinking Baudelaire's poetry and critiquing the modern consciousness. She attempts to show that something like an "aesthetics of bad faith" exists, and that it is a useful concept for understanding modernism in relationship to its own history. Throughout, Baudelaire's poetry is examined in detail, with a focus on its relationship to his writings on caricature, on the problem of the "secret architecture," and on the place of allegory in a symbolist poetics. In the closing chapter, the author analyzes Baudelaire's denunciation of photography, which reveals the various tensions (or "bad faith") implicit in the modernist consciousness.

Author : Mary Hope Ibach
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2015-03-31
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781503547582

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Only the Sublimely Ridiculous Get to Sit up Front by Mary Hope Ibach Pdf

My fourth book is an anthology of poetry and prose a selection of thoughts from the sublime to the ridiculous. They span topics from the 60s to our current day changes. No one knows what lurks in small town minds and sun speckled realities.

Author : Jeffrey M. Duban
Publisher : CLAIRVIEW BOOKS
Page : 832 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2016-08-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781905570805

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The Lesbian Lyre by Jeffrey M. Duban Pdf

Hailed by Plato as the “Tenth Muse” of ancient Greek poetry, Sappho is inarguably antiquity’s greatest lyric poet. Born over 2,600 years ago on the Greek island of Lesbos, and writing amorously of women and men alike, she is the namesake lesbian. What’s left of her writing, and what we know of her, is fragmentary. Shrouded in mystery, she is nonetheless repeatedly translated and discussed – no, appropriated – by all. Sappho has most recently undergone a variety of treatments by agenda-driven scholars and so-called poet-translators with little or no knowledge of Greek. Classicist-translator Jeffrey Duban debunks the postmodernist scholarship by which Sappho is interpreted today and offers translations reflecting the charm and elegant simplicity of the originals. Duban provides a reader-friendly overview of Sappho’s times and themes, exploring her eroticism and Greek homosexuality overall. He introduces us to Sappho’s highly cultured island home, to its lyre-accompanied musical legends, and to the fabled beauty of Lesbian women. Not least, he emphasizes the proximity of Lesbos to Troy, making the translation and enjoyment of Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey a further focus. More than anything else, argues Duban, it is free verse and its rampant legacy – and no two persons more than Walt Whitman and Ezra Pound – that bear responsibility for the ruin of today’s classics in translation, to say nothing of poetry in the twentieth century. Beyond matters of reflection for classicists, Duban provides a far-ranging beginner’s guide to classical literature, with forays into Spenser and Milton, and into the colonial impulse of Virgil, Spenser, and the West at large.

Author : Lilah Grace Canevaro,Donncha O'Rourke
Publisher : Classical Press of Wales
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2019-12-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781910589915

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Didactic Poetry of Greece, Rome and Beyond by Lilah Grace Canevaro,Donncha O'Rourke Pdf

Here a team of established scholars offers new perspectives on poetic texts of wisdom, learning and teaching related to the great line of Greek and Latin poems descended from Hesiod. In previous scholarship, a drive to classify Greek and Latin didactic poetry has engaged with the near-total absence in ancient literary criticism of explicit discussion of didactic as a discrete genre. The present volume approaches didactic poetry from different perspectives: the diachronic, mapping the development of didactic through changing social and political landscapes (from Homer and Hesiod to Neo-Latin didactic); and the comparative, setting the Graeco-Roman tradition against a wider backdrop (including ancient near-eastern and contemporary African traditions). The issues raised include knowledge in its relation to power; the cognitive strategies of the didactic text; ethics and poetics; the interplay of obscurity and clarity, playfulness and solemnity; the authority of the teacher.

Author : Edmund Burke
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1844
Category : Aesthetics
ISBN : UOM:39015008190186

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A Philosophical Enquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful by Edmund Burke Pdf

Author : George Murray
Publisher : ECW Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2021-09-07
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781773057736

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Problematica by George Murray Pdf

A best-of collection from one of Canada’s most ambitious poets Problematica — a scientific term used to describe species that defy classification. See unidentifiable. George Murray is a strange beast. Lauded as one of Canada’s leading poets, his work has been published around the world, but here at home, he has never really “fit in” with his contemporaries. By turns archly formal and thoughtful, insouciant and hilarious, each of his six books seems intent on staking out its own identity, standing alone in stark contrast to all others. Yet, in this judicious selection of new and selected poems spanning Murray’s 25-year career, we see threads and patterns emerge like fractals. From early narrative poems to lyrical explorations of the metaphysical to investigations of the colloquial and contemporary, Murray’s work roams a landscape that includes everything from happiness to regret, love to loss, doubt to faith, anxiety to acceptance. This collection not only represents the best of Murray’s earlier poems, but also surprises readers with a section of never-before-seen new work, revealing a life spent wrestling with what it means to arrive, live, and leave. Problematica is a considerable body of poetry from a mind that obsessively wanders the edges of thought and language, working to identify what boundaries may or may not exist.

Author : Charles Mahoney
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 634 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2010-12-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781444390643

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A Companion to Romantic Poetry by Charles Mahoney Pdf

Through a series of 34 essays by leading and emerging scholars, A Companion to Romantic Poetry reveals the rich diversity of Romantic poetry and shows why it continues to hold such a vital and indispensable place in the history of English literature. Breaking free from the boundaries of the traditionally-studied authors, the collection takes a revitalized approach to the field and brings together some of the most exciting work being done at the present time Emphasizes poetic form and technique rather than a biographical approach Features essays on production and distribution and the different schools and movements of Romantic Poetry Introduces contemporary contexts and perspectives, as well as the issues and debates that continue to drive scholarship in the field Presents the most comprehensive and compelling collection of essays on British Romantic poetry currently available

Author : George Bowering
Publisher : New Star Books
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2012-10-25
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781554200665

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Words, Words, Words by George Bowering Pdf

Words, Words, Words is a wide–ranging collection of literary essays that astonish the reader with their candor, insight, and generosity. Many of them reveal the absurdity that so often underlies our most passionate thoughts, our most cherished moments, even our most disturbing fears and recognitions. They echo everywhere with a kind of cosmic laughter that never lets us forget we are constructs of our own capacity to see through language — that at a most fundamental level, what we think about our selves is inevitably an extension of what we learn in our reading of others. Here we also get to find out what Bowering most cherishes about writers and writing: who Al Purdy was; what David McFadden's work pays attention to; when the world of poetry changed; where Artie Gold appeared as a light fixture in our darkness; how bpNichol's Martyrology legitimized the vernacular; why we cannot read history without encountering Shakespeare. Neither precious nor shy, their subjects range from the sublime to the ridiculous — from the inarticulate nature of grief to a modest proposal for the uses of the dead. Together, they constitute a history of the education of Canada's first Poet Laureate: from his adolescent dreams of becoming a writer; his early recognition of the discipline required to forge a life in language; the ongoing feud between the TISH authors and the self–appointed nationalist police; Bowering shares with us what he has learned in a lifetime of exercising his craft — even including what constitutes bad writing. Whether in deconstructing the cliches of genre fiction; the ghetto of identity politics; the hapless failure of any attempt to harness language to utilitarian purposes; the abuse of language required to write "sensitive" prose and verse; he constantly reminds us that the first and most important rule of life is: pay attention.

Author : Sorin Cerin
Publisher : Amazon
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-27
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9798523468872

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The Days of The Absurd-Philosophical poems by Sorin Cerin Pdf

Philosophical poetry or poetic philosophy? Sorin Cerin combines philosophy with poetry, being the author of a philosophical system called Coaxialism but also of many volumes of philosophical poetry. One of the representative poems being this with the title: "The Dreams of lead of the Death", whose lyrics are: "Wax candles, created from the emaciated bodies, of the Non-Senses of the Existence, are melted by the rays, of the Sacred Flames, of the Love, of the Divine Light, which have penetrated with difficulty, through the icy Darkness, from the Inferno of the Absurd, of the Illusions of Happiness, for to give us, the Wings of Angels of the Dreams, with which to we fly beyond us, up to the Star of Immortality, without it knowing, that we are being pursued, by the fangs, of bloody beast, of the Destiny, which crush us, with the Dreams of lead, of the Death, any Memory from the Future, toward which we want to go."

Author : Roland Greene,Stephen Cushman,Clare Cavanagh,Jahan Ramazani,Paul Rouzer,Harris Feinsod,David Marno,Alexandra Slessarev
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 1678 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2012-08-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780691154916

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The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics by Roland Greene,Stephen Cushman,Clare Cavanagh,Jahan Ramazani,Paul Rouzer,Harris Feinsod,David Marno,Alexandra Slessarev Pdf

Rev. ed. of: The Princeton encyclopedia of poetry and poetics / Alex Preminger and T.V.F. Brogan, co-editors; Frank J. Warnke, O.B. Hardison, Jr., and Earl Miner, associate editors. 1993.

Author : Matthew Ward
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2024-07-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780198894766

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Romantic Poets and the Laughter of Feeling by Matthew Ward Pdf

Romantic Poets and the Laughter of Feeling embraces the sublime and the ridiculous to offer a compelling new reading of British Romanticism. Matthew Ward reveals the decisive role laughter and the laughable play in Romantic aesthetics, emotions, and ethics.