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5 days ago by Agonistes

So the guys at Filmspotting said in a recent podcast that UP was better than Wall-E when comparing two of Pixar’s most significant recent releases. While I like movies like Finding Nemo and Cars as much as the next guy, Wall-E—at least for me—was Pixar’s announcement to the rest of the world that th ...

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9 days ago by driftglass

With apologies to Percy Shelley: ...And on the pedestal these words appear: 'My name is Richiemandias, Da Mare; Look on my Olympics, Milwaukee, and despair!'... driftglass.blogspot.com

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13 days ago

“My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!” - Percy Bysshe Shelley, Ozymandias

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14 days ago by gypsyscarlett

On a frigid June evening in 1816, Lord Byron, Percy Shelley, Mary Godwin (later Shelley), Claire Clairmont, and Doctor John Polidori huddled together in their summerhouse on the shore of Lake Geneva in Switzerland. With a thunderstorm raging outside, Byron passed the time by reading out loud from Da ...

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32 days ago by Sean Reilly

I met a traveller from an antique land Who said: "Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert. Near them on the sand, Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown And wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command Tell that its sculptor well those passions read Which yet survive, stamped on ...

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47 days ago by El Cabrero

Ouch! That had to hurt. A 17th century painting of Prometheus by Jacob Jordaens, courtesy of wikipedia. Welcome to Goat Rope's latest series on Everything You Always Wanted to Know (or not) about Greek Tragedy. If you want to skip this part, you can scroll down for links and comments about current e ...

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48 days ago

by Percy Shelley 5 minutes, 13 seconds Unabridged Formal Poetry 1816 A confessional poem by Shelley, written during the summer he spent on the shores of Lake Geneva. Read by Alex Wilson. Originally for sale on April 30, 2004, and released free with a Creative Commons Attribution License five years l ...

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51 days ago by Judô e Poesia

Quarta-feira, 13/5/2009Os beats e a tradição românticaGuilherme Diniz Walt Whitman, com a grandiloquência que lhe é inerente, escreveu no seu Leaves of Grass: "Soltem as fechaduras das portas! Soltem as portas dos seus batentes!". E montado nesse motivo Allen Ginsberg inaugurou o canto dissonante de ...

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55 days ago by angiecameron

Several common themes flow through poetry of the Romantic Period. The poets, either through conscious or unconscious efforts share similar hopes, fears, and concerns. These themes include “melancholy” that is relieved through nature, the frailty of human accomplishments, and intellectual beauty. As ...

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69 days ago by jamesdylansquire

When did free thinking become so synonyomous amongst the left? Why are there no right-wing creatives that don’t make me want to hang my head in shame at the prospect of potentially being one? We cannot idolise or romanticise the iconoclasm of Percy Shelley, or Karl Marx, or Hunter S. Thompson, or Os ...

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