My nephew got married last Saturday. I received wedding participation and took part with my sons in the ceremony, convinced that a reception had been avoided in times of pandemic.You can imagine the sadness I felt when I discovered in the churchyard that over a hundred people were going to a banquet from which we… Read More A stolen shot
“… and thus, dear students, we have arrived at the formula for understanding women” A chiunque possa interessare: “… e così, cari studenti, siamo giunti alla formula per capire le donne”
The note left by William Carlos Williams to his wife Florence in 1934, which has become one of his most famous poems, “This Is Just to Say”, called by a critic the “rape of the icebox” poem, (see here), got a “Reply” and the poet decided to include it as a ‘Detail’ in the partially… Read More Reply to “This Is Just To Say”/2
William Carlos Williams (born on 17 September 1883) was an American poet associated with the Imagist movement, who rejected traditional conventions of rhyme and meter, and used brusque, colloquial, and incisive American-English in his poetry. He had also a long career as a physician practicing both paediatrics and general medicine until he suffered a heart… Read More This Is Just to Say/1
①As we know, “Me and Mrs. Jones” is about a man having a clandestine affair with a married woman, Mrs. Jones. The song deals with adultery, and adultery was illegal in Pennsylvania until 1973. In November 1972 as the new criminal code was being debated, an amendment that wanted to keep the crime of adultery… Read More Me and Mrs. Jones/2 – Observations
Me and Mrs. JonesWe got a thing, goin’ onWe both know that it’s wrongBut it’s much too strongTo let it go now We meet every day at the same cafeSix-thirty and no one knows she’ll be thereHolding hands, making all kinds of plansWhile the juke box plays our favorite songs Me and Mrs., Mrs. Jones… Read More Me and Mrs. Jones /1
Amy Winehouse was born in London on 14 September 1983: she would be thirty-eight today The English singer-songwriter was admired for her song writing and her immediately recognisable contralto vocal range and soul-jazz style.Her second and final album, “Back to Black”, released in 2006 is predominantly based on her tumultuous relationship with Blake Fielder, then-ex-boyfriend… Read More 9 and 14: September 14th (Me and Mr. Jones)
From Mary Oliver’s “Sometimes” here is the third section. § 3Later I was in a field full of sunflowers.I was feeling the heat of midsummer.I was thinking of the sweet, electric drowse of creation,when it began to break.In the west, clouds gathered.Thunderheads.In an hour the sky was filled with them.In an hour the sky was… Read More Mary Oliver: “Sometimes” ( § 3)
I have already published the fourth and fifth parts of Mary Oliver‘s poem “Sometimes”. From today I will publish the other parts that make up this poem and their translation into Italian § 1Something came upout of the dark.It wasn’t anything I had ever seen before.It wasn’t an animalor a flower,unless it was both.Something came… Read More Mary Oliver: “Sometimes” ( § 1 – § 2)
In her poem “Sometimes” from Red Bird published in 2008 Mary Oliver (see here) says also something about love. § 5 Two or three times in my life I discovered love.Each time it seemed to solve everything.Each time it solved a great many thingsbut not everything.Yet left me as grateful as if it had indeed,… Read More Mary Oliver and Love (2)
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