Flamboyant heroes, adventure, riveting duels, and of course romance.
Alexandre Dumas and his swashbuckling Musketeers have fascinated for ages!
Here continues my list of quintessential American literary works: PART II of II The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien A classic, life-changing meditation on war, memory, imagination, and the redemptive power of storytelling Rated 4.4 on amazon.com Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell Widely considered The Great American Novel, and often remembered for […]
There is a plethora of great American literature, I could not create a list of less than 20. However, I focused less on the popularity of a novel/author and more on a variety and depth of “American ” (U.S.) content/concepts and ideas/ideals etc. Literature that focuses on the history, growth, and culture of our nation. So, […]
I really like this, but is it supposed to be “the one to be fair?”
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Yes! Oh the Joys of multi-tasking while blogging 🙂
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Thank you for sharing this poem. After looking around your pages, you have a very easy to read style or writing.
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Thank you 🙂
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“Yeah! Who exactly? Don’t you find, asking questions in your poetry – particularly repetitive rhyming instances – direct questions that require personal answers, from yourself? That’s why I very rarely pose questions in my writes, because beady psychoanalytic eyes get to delve into your inner workings – tee hee hee – and start reading Freud-like analogies. Would I do such a thing? – I secretly chortle to myself. Nicely put together and seems to exude a family angle – death erects a brick wall, so suddenly, it could easily refer to an aborted relationship, either way. I’m intrigued.” H.York
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They do. It’s a way of opening my own mind to certain possibilities, that I would have otherwise not given enough thought.
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“Inviting scrutiny is a brave course to take; opening up to things you might not want to hear? Freud said it, not me. It surfaced in the examination of Dora – she then refused to communicate verbally, trying to hide embarassment – he thought.. wow! It’s deep, eh?”
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It certainly leaves a person vulnerable, and vulnerability has the potential to create great intimacy, or great barriers.
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Great inspirational poem!
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Thank you. 🙂
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I really like the format of this poem – very nice!
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Thank you! 🙂
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