The Rhetorical Situation

Amusing Myself, Li Bai Face wine not aware get dark Fall flower fill my clothes Drunk stand step stream moon Bird far person also few Facing...

"Spring," by Edna St. Vincent Millay. Who, by the way, remains highly underrated in Harrogate's opinion. To what purpose, Apr...

From Aldous Huxley, The Defeat of Youth and Other Poems . The poem for today is Huxley's The Defeat of Youth, which you can read here ....

One of my favorites. Dorothy Parker, "Philosophy" If I should labor through daylight and dark, Consecrate, valorous, serious, true...

Happy Fourth of July to all Situationers, although some of you are Anglophiles unfortunately. Ye know who you are. :-) Also, Happy George ...

Megs looked at my funny the other night when Sweet Toddler J and I sat in the bedroom and read a few of Emily Dickinson's poems. When Sw...

The Choice, William Butler Yeats The intellect of man is forced to choose perfection of the life, or of the work, And if it take the second ...

CHANCE MEETINGS, Conrad Aiken (1889-1973) IN the mazes of loitering people, the watchful and furtive, The shadows of...

"If I Could Only Live at the Pitch That is Near Madness," Richard Eberhart If I could only live at the pitch that is near madness ...