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76The Conservative Rebellion
INTELLIGENT DESIGN In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.--GEN 1:1 Nature, bright effluence of the One Supreme!...
0 comments77A Sonnet Inspired by Edgar Allan Poe
THE PERFECT POEM LOST Death closes all: but something ere the end, / Some work ofnoble note, may yet be done. --Ulysses, Alfred Lord...
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79How to Write a Love Poem
Giving your lover a poem can be one of those show-stopping, OMG moments under the right conditions. Conditions? Isn't love unconditional, you ask? Ha! What a sentimental dolt you are! Let me give you a hint: ...
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77How to Write a Sonnet
Sonnets are fourteen lined poems with a strict rhyme scheme. Depending on whether the sonnet is an Italian sonnet or an English, or Shakespearean, sonnet, the rhyme scheme will vary just a little. You may,...
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70Poetry Analysis: "The Indifferent" by John Donne
The poet John Donne wrote “The Indifferent.” According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the word “indifferent” means without difference of inclination to prefer one person to another, unbiased and...
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79Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Love Sonnets
Sonnet 14: Sonnets from the Portuguese by Elizabeth Barrett Browning If thou must love me, let it be for nought Except for love's sake only. Do not say 'I love her for her smile... her look......
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76How to Write a Petrarchan Sonnet
A tutorial on how to write an Italian (Petrarchan) sonnet. I describe the Petrarchan form and analyze Milton's "On His Blindness" as an example.
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69My Christmas Sonnet
This little sonnet was written when my son was a few months old and my wife was home on maternity leave. It is based on the bible verse, "But Mary kept all these things, and pondered them in her heart." Luke 2:19. We don't hear from Mary in the Christmas story, so this is my attempt to put her thoughts into words.
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79Examples of Onomatopoeia Poetry
onomatopoeia is pronounced (on-o-mat-o-pe'-a) Function: noun 1 : the naming of a thing or action by a vocal imitation of the sound associated with it (as buzz, hiss) 2 : the use of words whose sound...
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74Love is not Love
Let me not into the marriage of true minds admit impediments. Love is not love that alters when alteration finds, nor bends with the remover to remove, Oh no! Love is an ever fixed mark that looks on...
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