January 29th, 2007
I was reading The Times in the library today, not my first choice of paper, but it was the only one that was left–apart from the Daily Mail, which I am so sick of. Usually I only offer the poetry page a cursory glance, but this time was the exception as I couldn’t believe the […]
January 17th, 2007
‘Tyger, Tyger’ was my first experience of Blake’s poetry. I was ten years old and our table in English performed it to the beat of a drum, which we had pinched from the music room to reinforce the trochaic rhythm–or what we knew as the “tum-ta” sound.
Tyger Tyger, burning bright,
In the forests of the night;
What […]
January 12th, 2007
Ve‧ri‧sim‧i‧li‧tude n.:
The appearance of truth; the quality of seeming to be true.
Something that has the appearance of being true or real.
What is truth and reality often depends entirely on context and your previous experience, regardless of the proponent of the situation.