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77How To Memorize A Poem
For a while in my career I was known as the person who could perform from memory poems of any length. On two days notice for instance I was able to perform, in its entirety, Allen Ginsberg's "Howl." That...
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72The Poetic Scriptures A Study of Parallelism
The Old Testament is a really profound book. It encompasses many different literary styles, including but not limited to that of Hebrew poetry. Hebrew poetry makes up about one-third of all the Old Testament...
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78there's something there that wasn't there before: a retelling of some philippine legends
Philippine legends (alamat) are a popular form of folktales or folklore. And like all oral traditions everywhere, they are passed down from one generation to the next, taught and studied in school or used by...
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74Literary Origins: Virgil's Appropriation of the Homeric Epics
Given the place in western literature both Homer and Virgil occupy, that is the place of a forefather standing far before other great literary minds and achievements, the relationship between the two takes on...
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69Legends of El Salvador -- La Sihuanaba
This legend is about a woman with long tangled hair covering her face, with a slim body and long nails and with enormous breasts that hung almost to the ground. La Sihuanaba appears on roads, in rivers and...
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80Lao Folktales : The Magic White Swan
Once there was a lonely farmer who decided to go fishing one day. He wore a shawl around his head to save from being bitten by mosquitoes and other bugs and carried a long fishing net. When he reached...
25 comments62Discover The Book (Part 2. God's Love Letter)
Part 1. Why Read The Bible? Part 3. God's Warning To The World Part 4. God's Promise To Believers An eternity ago, God had an idea. He decided to create life. It wasn't as if He was lonely (as we know...
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74Oral tradition in storytelling
Folksongs, jokes, and tall stories: does the oral tradition live? Another hubber wrote about the oral tradition and led me to think. Some scholars had declared the oral tradition to be obsolete with...
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70Review: Things Fall Apart By Chinua Achebe
Things Fall Apart is a grueling book for young readers. This is hardly the fault of the book as much as the worldview of the reader. In my case, this is the book that I didn’t like at first, but as I grew...
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56Seven Tips for Publishing Your Family History
I became personally interested in genealogy after following my husband through every cemetery in southeast Ohio as he looked for his Davis ancestors–no small undertaking. My own search was much...
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