Monday, December 7, 2009

Ode to A Nightingale

Link for more information on the inspiration behind Keats' poem:

http://englishhistory.net/keats/poetry/odetoanightingale.html

Sunday, December 6, 2009

Ode to Psyche- "soft conched ear"


In Ode to Psyche by Keats, the poestic voice refers to Psyche's "soft-conched ear" in line 4.

A conch shell looks like this (see above)
Notice the pinkish skin colour of the inside of the conch and how it does have the shape of a human ear.

Just thought it would be nice to post up the picture so everyone can picture the imagery in the poem more clearly :)

Thursday, December 3, 2009

The Sweatshop Child

They click their clocks to clogged hearts
Force clobbered, cracked bones craft
Such senseless acts will reinact
As we will tempt it back

You'll beat for blood branded oaths
To back yourselves in beauty clothes
Must every store and every isle?
Steal life from every child?

Might children croon for little cradle
The corporate cost, such craze a fable
Will tell their tale like timed task
To tempt their tampered moral mask