Blog Entries - March 2006

Alfred Lord Tennyson as anti-war activist

stevenl

I always felt that Tennyson's "Charge of the Light Brigade" was an anti-war poem.

A friend argues the opposite, stating that the poem reflected the jingoistic nature and sentimentality of Victorian England.

What do you think?

Half a league, half a league,

Half a league onward,

All in the valley of Death

Rode the six hundred.

"Forward, the Light Brigade!

"Charge for the guns!" he said:

Into th [...]

Ted Kooser reads at UC Santa Barbara

dsendecki

U.S. Poet Laureate Ted Kooser is a major poetic voice for rural and small town America and the award-winning author of ten collections of poetry, most recently 2004's Pulitzer Prize-winning Delights and Shadows. Nebraskan Kooser often draws from his native Great Plains and his poems are acclaimed for their simple, straightforward style. Kooser reads from his poetry before a standing-room only audience in Campbell Hall at UC Santa Barbara.

Here ya go...

Let me know what you t [...]