Daisy Behagg explores the idea of the body’s conscious self

It seems strange that 2 years ago the Lib Dems were done for and now it is Labour.Things are changing so fast it is worrying

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poems/detail/42646?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Poetryfoundationorg%20Newsletter&utm_content=Poetryfoundationorg%20Newsletter+CID_a08f8df72ca0bc3005f8b6c5efae358e&utm_source=Campaign%20Monitor&utm_term=Late%20by%20David%20Rivard

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jason-derr/the-role-of-poetry-in-rel_b_636293.html

http://www.europarl.europa.eu/the-president/en/press-room/freedom-of-movement-and-eu-citizenship-speech-by-martin-schulz-president-of-the-european-parliament-at-the-national-institute-for-economic-and-social-research

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/11/16/will-stop-funding-hate-end-british-tabloid-racism-this-christmas.html

Read more at http://examples.yourdictionary.com/examples-of-integrity.html#s83XipS8mQSXFHl3.99

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How to Write a Sonnet Poem in 7 Steps

6. Incorporate a Volta

Volta is the Italian word for “turn.” A turn could represent various changes in the sonnet. It might refer to a change in the theme, the sound, the emphasis of the message or image of the poem. The purpose of the volta is to indicate that the sonnet is coming to an end. In the English sonnet, the volta or turn is found in the third quatrain while in the Italian sonnet the volta is often found in the ninth line. In Browning’s sonnet, a change is noticeable in the ninth line. She reads the note which declares a love for her – words that she had been longing to hear that can now be said aloud marking a monumental change in her life. In Shakespeare’s “Sonnet 18,” there is a shift in language with the word “but” at the beginning of the third quatrain.  After describing all of the beauty that ultimately fades, the speaker addresses the poem’s ability to preserve the beauty of the beloved forever.

7. Use Poetic Devices

To enhance the imagery and message of the poem, incorporate poetic devices or literary devices in poetry.  Imagery is particularly important when writing a poem. Imagery can be established through word choice, as well as the use of figurative language such as similes, metaphors, and personification. Alliteration and other sound devices such as assonance and consonance can be used to create a musical quality and symbolism will help to create a deeper message for the audience. The course, Understanding Romantic Poetry, will introduce poetry from the Romantic Era and instruct how to read and comprehend poetry from the literary period.

Scottish home flies Mexican flag

http://www.lrb.co.uk/v33/n02/slavoj-zizek/good-manners-in-the-age-of-wikileaks

Extract

However, it is a mistake to assume that revealing the entirety of what has been secret will liberate us. The premise is wrong. Truth liberates, yes, but not “this truth. Of course one cannot trust the façade, the official documents, but neither do we find truth in the gossip shared behind that façade. Appearance, the public face, is never a simple hypocrisy. E.L. Doctorow once remarked that appearances are all we have, so we should treat them with great care. We are often told that privacy is disappearing, that the most intimate secrets are open to public probing. But the reality is the opposite: what is effectively disappearing is public space, with its attendant dignity. Cases abound in our daily lives in which not telling all is the proper thing to do. In Baisers volés, Delphine Seyrig explains to her young lover the difference between politeness and tact: ‘Imagine you inadvertently enter a bathroom where a woman is standing naked under the shower. Politeness requires that you quickly close the door and say, “Pardon, Madame!”, whereas tact would be to quickly close the door and say: “Pardon, Monsieur!”’ It is only in the second case, by pretending not to have seen enough even to make out the sex of the person under the shower, that one displays true tact.

Sorry I can’t answer the phone.I’ve gone out for a stake.
Sorry I am not here.They gave me too many injections and I’m not back yet
Sorry I can’t take your call.I am planning to shoot myself tonight but if I don’t I’ll write you an email tomorrow.I have no gun anyway
Sorry I am not in.I’ve been arrested for writing draughty verses.Is it a crime now?
Sorry we are off to the pub to get arrested for drunk driving so we can spend the New Year in jail…. it saves money for us but not the taxpayer
Please stop phoning,,my head is ringing…… how do I take the call?
Sorry ,I am out right now as I’d love to fear your voice again.Please growl back later.
Fancy you ringing,I love your rude message and return it redoubled in strength.
Yes,you did love her but it was a wrong time ago and besides she is a dead wretch.
This is a telephone answering service.If you are human try meeting face to face.
Honesty can get very wounding so please take care about leaving messages after the tone beeps.
Silence and telephones are incompatible.So take your wick and wonk off.
Why are you phoning?I saw you today.Please do not leave a message as I am feeling moody and mean like a film star
He said he was going out for a bark.Can I fake a message?
He said he was ill but not that he was dead.Men!
He said he’s had enough but not of what. if you get the gist of it

Please wear a frown in bed,especially when harried for more than than ten years.
Please keep your head bevelled.
Please do not sleep on my head.
Please keep your stare on all night and every right.
Please use the bathroom for writhing in.
Please have clean sex everyday, especially on Sundays.
Please change your underwear gaily.
Please ask before playing on my nerves
Please  get smashed before your mother comes to stay
Please wash your aunts every night, especially in summer time.
Please feed the bat on schedule.
Please keep the hog off the bed
Please take your anti-riot pills handy and do finish the coarse and smooth out the mirrors
Please keep your cuneiform safe and bound.
Please wear a cat when out of doors.
Please carry your loves  everywhere in winter.
Please take your trews off before entering.
Please be a delight at all times.
Please play chess alone as you are too clever for me
Please do not let your roes glow.
Please remember you are not abreast.
Please nip envy in the blood.
Please use your body as I would.
Please do not get into a double bind unless over the age of consent.
Gregory Bateson.I’ve never heard of him!
What is a double bind anyway?

http://www.openculture.com/2016/04/richard-feynman-creates-a-simple-method-for-telling-science-from-pseudoscience-1966.html

The example Feynman gives comes from the most rudimentary source, a “first grade science textbook” which “begins in an unfortunate manner to teach science”: it shows its student a picture of a “windable toy dog,” then a picture of a real dog, then a motorbike. In each case the student is asked “What makes it move?” The answer, Feynman tells us “was in the teacher’s edition of the book… ‘energy makes it move.’” Few students would have intuited such an abstract concept, unless they had previously learned the word, which is all the lesson teaches them. The answer, Feynman points out, might as well have been “’God makes it move,’ or ‘Spirit makes it move,’ or, ‘Movability makes it move.’”

Instead, a good science lesson “should think about what an ordinary human being would answer.” Engaging with the concept of energy in ordinary language enables the student to explain it, and this, Feynman says, constitutes a test for “whether you have taught an idea or you have only taught a definition. Test it this way”:

Without using the new word which you have just learned, try to rephrase what you have just learned in your own language. Without using the word “energy,” tell me what you know now about the dog’s motion.

Feynman’s insistence on ordinary language recalls the statement attributed to Einstein about not really understanding something unless you can explain it to your grandmother. The method, Feynman says, guards against learning “a mystic formula for answering questions,” and Oxenham describes it as “a valuable way of testing ourselves on whether we have really learned something, or whether we just think we have learned something.”

It is equally useful for testing the claims of others. If someone cannot explain something in plain English, then we should question whether they really do themselves understand what they profess…. In the words of Feynman, “It is possible to follow form and call it science, but that is pseudoscience.”

You cannot   sail the river deep  of grief
Though it flows on its course to the sea
It flows under the ground,under dark leaves

How can  any friend never see?
Anguish cannot hide  totally
How can a  new life now ever be?

You speak soft,so sweet,quietly
I  can   sense how you suffer beneath
As the river flows on,how to be?

As the red leaves fly up , as winds seethe
They fall far away  from their home
The ground is a carpet   of grief.

The tree is a mother now forlorn
She has lost  her little children  to the storm
We can’t hear how she  patiently groans

Grief will  connect us again
As  our tears  slither  down to the rain
They will join the deep river of grief
As it flows under the ground  deep in leaves

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/edward-hirsch-/10-terms-you-need-to-know_b_5153884.html

http://www.jenniferwarnes.com/pages/letgriefinform.html