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The Classroom
To appease me idle curiosity I walked through me old school And took a tour of the classrooms With a motley assortment Of chalk, and a carefully organized Syllabus ready to be placed Onto each student’s desk I have a momentary forgetfulness About time frames and bid a friendly ‘Here’ to me teachers who once took Attendance in these rooms. Today they wanted us to use metonymy. I took…
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May is the month of new vintage releases and today was the @vinosphere tasting. Big thank you to @enotecasydney @vinoussolutions and @vintagedavid for showcasing such great wine #vinosphere #winetastings #wine #wineporn #igwine #winesofinstagram #clonakilla #bassphillip #torbreck #apostophe #lofiwine #sensesat #dawsonjames #grandevindima #radixandvine #lovemyjob (at Sydney, Townhall)
The Nerdy Pleasure of Punctuation
It's #NationalPunctuationDay. Time to get nerdy!
24 September is National Punctuation Day, and it has me worrying that my love of punctuation makes me seem … well, persnickety.
I know it’s nerdy to enjoy punctuation, but a Grammar Nazi I am not. I don’t get riled by other people’s misplaced apostrophes or their lack of an Oxford comma. I see the error, and move on.
I don’t shame people who overuse quotation marks or argue with those…
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ADVENTURE TIME JUST REFERENCED FRANK ZAPPA. MY UNIVERSE HAS IMPLODED. SEND HELP.
"I'll have that chalk, thank you."
Beginning Definitions
The Byronic Hero: passionate, yet flawed individual-isms, intellectually searching and deeply sensual with ambitions doomed from the start.
Blank Verse: poetry written in iambic pentameter with five iambs per line. Often used in a less formal conversational manner.
Romantic: a period where there was a fascination with youth and innocence, to questioning authority and tradition for idealistic purposes, and to developing an awareness of adapting to change.
Ode: a meditative poem which uses heightened, impassioned language and addresses some object.
Apostrophe: direct address of nonhuman objects through personification.
Synaesthesia: one sense experience (touch) is described in terms of another (taste).
Literary Ballad: a song-like poem that tells a story, is written in imitation of the folk ballads, which springs from genuine oral tradition.
From http://www.teachertube.com/viewVideo.php?video_id=111495&title=Love_Story__Byronic_Hero_and_Wordsworth_s_Lucy
