Poems for my family 010 – Gumilyov
Listening time: under 4 minutes. I discovered this poem in my early twenties, possibly while first living and...
Wasps quick-bending
One of the many stretch metaphors used by Homer. When you see a comma followed by 'as ...' it can...
Nestor berates the Greeks
Old Nestor has a few choice words to say to his fellow Greeks for their unwillingness to take on the...
Diving in head first
Keats was a bold player, keeping his eye determinedly focussed on achieving enduring greatness, not on the fads and fashions...
Like a surgeon’s knife
Adam Bede is so far from being like a timid woman that this is striking, and Eliot uses the idea...
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