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Literature week 11
This is a creative piece I wrote called Saturday Night - Coming Home From the Cross.
The sensation of the concrete pounding beneath my bare feet sends shocks through my entire body. The bus is there and the doors are about to close, but we’ve had an incredible amount to drink, and I have this burning sensation from wearing heels for too long. My eye ( Read more... ) -
Literature week 10
Juno Honour, riches, marriage-blessing,
Long continuance and increasing,
Hourly joys be still upon you!
Juno sings her blessings on you.
Ceres Earths increase, and foison plenty,
Barns and garners never empty,
Vines with clust’ring bunches growing,
Plants with goodly burden bowing;
Spring come to you at the farthest,
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Literature week 9
As I was re-reading my lecture notes for week 9, the common theme for this week was Calliban in Shakespeare’s ‘The Tempest’. We discussed Calliban as the white to Prospero’s black, as the nature to Prospero’s nurture ( Read more... ) -
Literature week 8
ok so this is either my 5th or 6th attempt at posting this entry, so all the fancy-ness (pictures and video's i've been trying to upload) will have to wait - because if my computer crashes again I may have to throw it out of my 4th floor window ( Read more... ) -
Literature Comment week 7
wow alex you have such a creative brain!!! i really enjoyed reading this :D and the pictures were a great accompaniment. Your piece of prose is so pregnant (as shakespeare would say) with images of nature and the bitterness as well as the sweetness of humanity - what we destroy, what we create, and what we have the ability to appreciate.
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Literature Week 7
The depths of a world,
of which I'll never be,
Leave me breathless, and blind,
and yet it's all I can see.
You swallow people whole,
and spit out their bones;
They forget that time spent with you,
is only on short loan.
Your song gently lures,
soul upon soul,
With the salty air you push through us,
and blue diamonds that ever roll.
This is a poem I wrote - so ( Read more... ) -
Comment on LJ week 6
This my comment on Rob Reilly's LJ. The url is http://reilly88.livejournal.com/17338.html
Reilly this was really interesting to read! I tend to avoid reading the longer entries in peoples journals, but the photo of your Great-Great-Grandfather caught my eye. Firstly I would love to know how ( Read more... ) -
Literature week 6
Here's a poem i wrote this week.
The language is really simple but poetry isn't really a strength for me, so it is what it is.
Your fluoro singlet makes me cringe
and the pills on which you binge
ruin what should be fun.
But what is fun about all these annoying people, and the hot hot sun?
You contradict everything you say
“Alcohol is not the way”
You ( Read more... ) -
Comment on LJ week 5
This is my week 5 comment on Jessica's LJ. The URL is: http://jessicailacqua.livejournal.com/11097.htmlRead more... ) -
Literature week 5
We flicked ever so gently through the rough, thick pages of the books in the Shakespeare room. They would have been over 100 years old. The room was so delicately and intricately designed, with hand carved ceilings and walls. It was tiny, tinier than I had expected, but I suppose books don’t take up that much space - not even Shakespeare’s. It felt ( Read more... )