Yesterday’s full moon, the closest to the September equinox, was the Harvest Moon. Our friend Pat / e-Quips published a wonderful post about it: you can read it here , and also Lara Ferri wrote about it in the post you can find here In the Northern Hemisphere the Harvest Moon is astronomically significant because… Read More Under the Harvest Moon
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
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)
Mary Oliver (10 September 1935 –2019) was an American poet who won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1984 and The National Book Award for poetry in 1992.Her poems are meditations on nature, spirituality and the human experience in a straightforward language that makes poetry “look easy.” However, if this gift appealed to the public,… Read More Mary Oliver and Life (1)
Uno dei maggiori intellettuali italiani del XX secolo, Cesare Pavese, scrittore, poeta, saggista e traduttore, nacque il 9 settembre 1908 e morì il 27 agosto 1950 (vedi qui) Ecco una sua poesia dal titolo “Due”, il ritratto di due innamorati spossati dopo un momento di passione. Due Uomo e donna si guardano supini nel letto:i… Read More Cesare Pavese – “Due”
Mi è sempre piaciuto settembre con le sue dolci giornate splendenti. Un mese pieno d’ uva, di mele, di fichi profumati e di amici ritrovati.Regala languidi raggi di sole, dolci profumi inebrianti, rondini che fissano appuntamenti, foglie e farfalle vaganti prima di scegliere dove poggiarsi silenti.Evoca una felicità sommessa e una dolce malinconia… e anche… Read More Le giornate di settembre
Mother, do you think they’ll drop the bomb?Mother, do you think they’ll like the song?Mother, do you think they’ll try to break my balls?OohMother, should I build the wall?Mother, should I run for president?Mother, should I trust the government?Mother, will they put me in the firing line?OohIs it just a waste of time? This song… Read More Roger Waters – “Mother” (2-analysis)
