Why our modern day superheroes may not be so different from those of the medieval past What first comes to mind when someone says the word ‘superhero’? Between 2016-2026, superhero movies generated an estimated $30 billion in box office revenue alone. We credit Marvel and DC comics with the innovation behind the characters we love,Continue reading “The World According To ‘Superheroes – Past, Present, and Future’”
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Poetry: Learned Behaviour
“Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; and let them rule over the fish of the sea…and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.” Genesis 1:26-27 Sand lies still.Untouched, a patent beauty.Wave thunders, pressing himself across the ocean, always seeking, expecting.He crashes over her, smothering her, wetting her. FulfillingContinue reading “Poetry: Learned Behaviour”
Poetry: Ode to Gerard Manley Hopkins
I sent nightshade to poison duskwith the embers of a candlestick.And wounded in the darken’d musk,A Nightingale sparked a fragile wick. It rattles eastward through furrowed browsAnd rests in the cracks of gossamer sails.On German soil a mourner’s wailsAre heard amongst the brindled cows. Where time falls blank between the stars,God cracks dusk’s shells withContinue reading “Poetry: Ode to Gerard Manley Hopkins”
The World According To: Life in Quarantine Post 2 ‘Poetry and Writing’
Poetry and Writing – two of my absolute favourite things. I am going to share some of my favourite poems and try and talk about how writing can be both creative and cathartic. Starting off with poetry: If a heaven for poetry ever existed, it is this website. Imagine every poem ever written in oneContinue reading “The World According To: Life in Quarantine Post 2 ‘Poetry and Writing’”
Quarantine Series: The World According To ‘Self-Improvement during Quarantine’ Post 1: Reading
Quarantine and Lockdown have been the bane of everybody’s Covid-19 experience. Here are some ideas to pass the time that my friends, professors and I have engaged in over the course of lockdown. We hope you get as much enjoyment out of them as us. I will be posting a Quarantine Series as follows (seeContinue reading “Quarantine Series: The World According To ‘Self-Improvement during Quarantine’ Post 1: Reading”
The World According to ‘Are Women Safer in the Literary Past than Modern Society?’
“When, however, one reads of a witch being ducked, of a woman possessed by devils, of a wise woman selling herbs, or even of a very remarkable man who had a mother, then I think we are on the track of a lost novelist, a suppressed poet, of some mute and inglorious Jane Austen, someContinue reading “The World According to ‘Are Women Safer in the Literary Past than Modern Society?’”
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