Being a mom Quote by James Fenton

“The lullaby is the spell whereby the mother attempts to transform herself back from an ogre to a saint.” quote by James Fenton — Download Open image

“The lullaby is the spell whereby the mother attempts to transform herself back from an ogre to a saint.”

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Among those today who believe that modern poetry must do without rhyme or metre, there is an assumption that the alternative to free verse…

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When we study Shakespeare on the page, for academic purposes, we may require all kinds of help. Generally, we read him in modern spelling…

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There is no objection to the proposal: in order to learn to be a poet, I shall try to write a sonnet. But the…

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Poetry carries its history within it, and it is oral in origin. Its transmission was oral. Its transmission today is still in part oral,…

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A glance at the history of European poetry is enough to inform us that rhyme itself is not indispensable. Latin poetry in the classical…

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In song the same rule applies as in dramatic verse: the meaning must yield itself, or yield itself sufficiently to arouse the attention and…

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Great poetry does not have to be technically intricate.

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'Love' is so short of perfect rhymes that convention allows half-rhymes like 'move.' The alternative is a plague of doves, or a kind of…

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Lyric poetry is, of course, musical in origin. I do know that what happened to poetry in the twentieth century was that it began…

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At somewhere around 10 syllables, the English poetic line is at its most relaxed and manageable.

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Her dignity consists in being unknown to the world; her glory is in the esteem of her husband; her pleasures in the happiness of…

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In many ways, being pregnant and working were more difficult than motherhood.

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