Poetry also exists, of course, in music. Mark Knopfler, of Dire Straights, is one of the most poetic musicians in word and melody I’ve ever heard. From “Love Over Gold” (one of my favorite albums):
Monthly Archives: January 2013
A Divine Image
The second of this pair of often-confused poems. A Divine Image William Blake Cruelty has a human heart, And Jealousy a human face; Terror the human form divine, And Secresy the human dress. The human dress is forged iron, The human form a fiery forge, The human face a furnace sealed, The human heart its …
The Divine Image
William Blake has two poems with very similar names, covering very similar subjects (two sides of the same coin), in a very similar structure and rhyme. “The Divine Image” can be construed as the poem that sees the beauty in mankind. The Divine Image BY WILLIAM BLAKE To Mercy, Pity, Peace, and Love All pray …
Dedication from “Barrack-Room Ballads”
The Road Not Taken
I first stumbled into the Robert Frost poem because it formed the basis for one of my favorite short Science Fiction stories. The story had posited “what if” faster-than-light travel was actually something most races stumbled into at roughly medieval levels of technology, and we simply never figured it out? Most cultures went a-hunting across …