Peom No 794- Emily Dickinson

Infinite Rain / Pluie de Montchal, Pier Fabre, 2022

 

794- Emily Dickinson

A Drop fell on the Apple Tree -

Another - on the Roof -

A Half a Dozen kissed the Eaves -

And made the Gables laugh -

A few went out to help the Brook

That went to help the Sea -

Myself Conjectured were they Pearls -

What Necklaces could be -

The Dust replaced, in Hoisted Roads -

The Birds jocoser sung -

The Sunshine threw his Hat away -

The Bushes - spangles flung -

The Breezes brought dejected Lutes -

And bathed them in the Glee -

The Orient showed a single Flag,

And signed the fête away -

 

"Of uncontested summer all things raise- Plainly their seeming into seamless air." - Wilbur

 

Gjertrud Hals- Eir, 2019, Photo: Sjur Fedje

JUNE LIGHT

Richard Wilbur

1921 – 2017

Your voice, with clear location of June days,

Called me outside the window.  You were there,

Light yet composed, as in the just soft stare

Of uncontested summer all things raise

Plainly their seeming into seamless air.

 

Then your love looked as simple and entire

As that picked pear you tossed me, and your face

As legible as pearskin’s fleck and trace,

Which promise always wine, by mottled fire

More fatal fleshed than ever human grace.

 

And your gay gift—Oh when I saw it fall

Into my hands, through all that naïve light,

It seemed as blessed with truth and new delight

As must have been the first great gift of all.

 

 

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"light breached through" - Ser Hibardiyan

Marit Beer

light breached through

the poorly opaque curtain

illuminates

the drops of color

broken off

from the unruly bristles

bundled to made sit at

the end of the

neat stick

just like morning hair

refusing to behave

- Ser Hibardiyan

“Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold” - W.B. Yeats

Gyre Yunchul Kim Venice Biennale 2022

The Second Coming

By William Butler Yeats

Turning and turning in the widening gyre   

The falcon cannot hear the falconer;

Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;

Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,

The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere   

The ceremony of innocence is drowned;

The best lack all conviction, while the worst   

Are full of passionate intensity.

Surely some revelation is at hand;

Surely the Second Coming is at hand.   

The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out   

When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi

Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert   

A shape with lion body and the head of a man,   

A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,   

Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it   

Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.   

The darkness drops again; but now I know   

That twenty centuries of stony sleep

Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,   

And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,   

Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43290/the-second-coming

“I have crossed oceans of time to find you.” — Bram Stoker

 

Dracula: A Love Tale, 2025

Bram Stoker’s Dracula is not only a tale of horror and the supernatural, but also a haunting meditation on romantic beauty and desire. Beneath its gothic darkness lies a deep sense of yearning, a tragic love that transcends time, death, and morality. Count Dracula’s passion for Mina Harker evokes both terror and tenderness, blurring the line between devotion and destruction. The lush, moonlit landscapes, the melancholic tone, and the sensual language all weave a web of beauty around the monstrous, making love itself appear as both a curse and a sacred calling. In this way, Dracula captures the romantic ideal at its most paradoxical, where love and horror become inseparable. 

For those who are interested in the beautiful language of Stoker, reading the novel is a deeply rewarding experience: https://share.google/OoajTtiOIUzRlYsEw

Final Exam Reading List – SO-SE: European Renaissance and 17th Century Background

Dear Students,

For the SO-SE final exam on European Renaissance and 17th Century Background, please make sure to review the following works:

• John Milton – Paradise Lost

• Ben Jonson – Volpone, or The Fox

• Aphra Behn – Oroonoko

Best,

G