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My Last Duchess by Robert Browning - Poetry Reading

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My Last Duchess - A poem by Robert Browning. The poem is set during the late Italian Renaissance. The speaker (presumably the Duke of Ferrara) is giving the emissary of his prospective second wife a tour of the artworks in his home.

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To enable a persons delusions

is not beneficial in the long run

and can sometimes is deadly.

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There is such loneliness to

being the last one left.

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"The red dawn is now rearranging the earth..."

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Boys suddenly turned men by the pick of a number, carrying some items to help keep them alive and other items to help keep their hope alive.

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The memories that Maggie

has every time she uses

something that

was made by a family

member are priceless.

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Out of all the required reading this one

reminded me the most of how fragile our

sense of humanity really is.

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"The old people sat on the bench, still as statues."

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The cruelty of mental illness can

turn the grandest of homes into

a prison.

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D. H. Lawrence's "The Rocking-Horse Winner"

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D. H. Lawrence's "The Rocking-Horse Winner"

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"If you're lucky you have money".

The need to prove that he was lucky cost Paul

not only his childhood innocence but his life.

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This is the recording of Funeral Blues from the wonderful BBC program "The Addictions of Sin: WH Auden in His Own Words." The best reading of it I have ever heard. Copyright belongs to BBC, which I adore. Thanks go to the BBC for producing such wonderful programs and enlightening the world.

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Real cool. Gwendolyn Brooks' poem is a staple, for sure. So we had to offer our rendition. This video is also a homage to Richard Wright's 12 Million Black Voices, for like Wright, we've utilized images from the Farm Security Administration archive to complement the words.

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"My Papa's Waltz" by Theodore Roethke (read by Tom O'Bedlam)

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Richard Cory by Edwin Arlington Robinson - Poetry Reading

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Richard Cory - A poem by Edwin Arlington Robinson. About the poem - "Richard Cory" is a narrative poem written by Edwin Arlington Robinson. It was first published in 1897, as part of The Children of the Night, having been completed in July of that year, and remains one of Robinson's most popular and anthologized poems. The poem describes a person who is wealthy, well educated, mannerly, and admired by the people in his town.

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In Just by E.E.Cummings - Poetry Reading

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About the poet -- Edward Estlin Cummings (1894 -- 1962) was an American poet, painter, essayist, author, and playwright. He was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. Cummings' poetry often deals with themes of love and nature, as well as the relationship of the individual to the masses and to the world.

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There are no words that I can add.     Remembering 911

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Poet Billy Collins Reflects on 9/11 Victims in 'The Names'

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America Remembers 9/11 | PBS NewsHour http://to.pbs.org/mVBUK4 Billy Collins was the U.S. poet laureate at the time of the 9/11 attacks. A year later, he wrote "The Names" in honor of the victims. He read the poem before a special joint session of Congress held in New York City in 2002, and reads it again now.

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This quote describes so many of the young men who came

home from Viet Nam. "When

he came home, though,

Henry was very different, and

I'll say this: the change was

no good.

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This story is a prime example of children learning to hate because the generation before them hated. hese children couldn't say why they hated other than a difference in color.

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There is almost nothing that is out of reach when your young and in love.

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I personally think that the

way the United States of America

tried to erase the history and

people of an entire race is one of

the darkest marks in the history

of the U.S

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This story is the classic example to be careful what you wish for.

Listen to Willie Nelson sing

Unchained Melody

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"...too giggle out loud.

I did not have in mind the ceiling spinning..."

This made me smile as I remembered the time of my youthful ignorance.

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I  thought  of Sammy  as a modern knight in shining armor standing up for his "Queenie's" honor.  I believe what Sammy meant when he said "I felt how hard the world was going to be

to me from here on in." was that he

realized once you have chosen to stand

up for what you believe is right that there

was always going to be people

trying to convince him otherwise.

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As Louise was looking out of her window and whispered "Free body and soul free!"  this statue of Winged Victory came to mind.