| Poetry week 2- Hertha, Algernon Charles Swinburne |
[Apr. 18th, 2008|11:56 am] |
This, for me, is the most beautiful of Swinburne's anti-Christian/alternative religion poems. Not only the phrasing and the rhythm but the philosophy expressed (that humans are kin to animals; that nature continues existing whether you believe in it or not; that nature, the only force which is anything like what we call divine, requires no worship) thrill me. I can't say I believe in Swinburne's visions all the time, but I believe in them while I'm reading the poetry, and "Hertha" comes closest of his poems to expressing my permanent ideas.
"Hertha" by Algernon Charles Swinburne- originally published in Songs Before Sunrise, 1871.
I AM that which began;
Out of me the years roll;
Out of me God and man;
I am equal and whole;
God changes, and man, and the form of them bodily; I am the soul.
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| These books sound so horrible, but the review is so funny. |
[Apr. 18th, 2008|05:31 pm] |
OH JOHN RINGO NO!
aka, a review of John Ringo's SF series starting with a book called Ghosts in which there is constant rape and an unending fascination with whores and politics so far to the right that, no, they don't actually make any sense even if you are Republican.
Now I know what straight men read for porn instead of bad slash fanfic. |
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