This story was previously titled "Ode on a Grecian Urn by John Keats"
Beauty is truth, truth beauty.. »
Posted By gamahuche 5 months, 4 weeks ago in Arts & EntertainmentWritten in 1819, 'Ode on a Grecian Urn' was the third of the five
'great odes' of 1819, which are generally believed to have been written in the following order - Psyche, Nightingale, Grecian Urn, Melancholy, and Autumn; Of the five, Grecian Urn and Melancholy are merely dated '1819'. Critics have used vague references in Keats's letters as well as thematic progression to assign order.
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"I would rather be a square peg than fit in a pigeon hole" -
an essay which won me the "Lamb Essay Prize" at the Religious ...
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gamahuche5 months, 4 weeks ago
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After several days "lost in translation", most of it extremely tedious but extremely well-paid commercial stuff about the installation of a yoghurt factory and production of the same item I finally got to work on a short piece that could have been equally boring about quarrying in Vietnam, but which was beautifully written prose and connected with my partner's work which had my fingers joyfully dancing across the keyboard. To express the feeling of beauty engendered I could only find poetry and the words "beauty is truth, truth beauty" flashed through my consciousness - which led to a vivid and emotive vocal rendering for my long-suffering sweetheart and work-partner and an e-mail sending of the poem to my beautiful daughter..
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And now, next morning, joyously shared with my virtual friends here on propeller prior to returning to the yoghurt factory.. -
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gamahuche5 months, 3 weeks ago
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BRAVO! BRAVO! BRAVO! will do for next time around!
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Seriously I may well publish a poem now and then..
But they won't necessarily all be ancient..
S.T. Coleridge used to attend the school which I went to but somehow we never actually met..
I don't think that I'll be posting the Rime of the Ancient Mariner though, even in weekly chunks..
"It is an ancient Mariner,
And he stoppeth one of three.
' By thy long gray beard and glittering eye,
Now wherefore stopp'st thou me?' " -
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