by jpAdmin | Aug 18, 2023 | Essays
Shelley’s sonnet Ozymandias uses the Greek name for Ramesses II, the most famous of Egyptian pharaohs, and was written as a great statute of him was in transit to the British Museum in a wave of awe and Orientalism sweeping Europe. The poem captures both the power...
by jpAdmin | Aug 11, 2023 | Essays
When I was young, there was a bare patch under some tall and shady basswood trees (I called them ‘lollipop trees’, as that is what they looked like) where regular grass just didn’t want to grow. So, I started to play mud games with the hose. While my brothers were...