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• on Mending Wall by Robert Frost, on May 30, 2006

  A Frost favorite

  >Before I built a wall I'd ask to know
  >What I was walling in or walling out,
  
  Stone walls around cemetaries must be one of Man's most ridiculous conceptions and utterly pointless: those walled in can't get out, wall or no wall, and those walled out don't wan't to get in!
  
  Frost shows that other walls ultimately prove just as futile.
  
• on Sonnet: When I Have Fears That I May Cease To Be by John Keats, on June 7, 2005

  In this sonnet Keats tells of his thoughts when he realised his death would occur before he could complete his writings. He died at age 26. I strongly suggest you read the poem aloud, but also experiment with only reading parts here and there until you know and feel its sense and mood.
  
  Divide the poem into sections of four lines each. They begin with 'When', 'When', 'And when' respectively. The last section ends in the middle of the fourth line. The final section is two lines and a bit. Each section expresses a particular sentiment.
  
  In the first section Keats uses the word 'fears' but this is not of death or pain or terror but of regret. It is as if I said, "I fear I cannot meet you because I need to go to the dentist." Get the idea? It is the dentist I fear. I regret not meeting you!
  
  Read lines 1 and 2. He regrets no time to write down his thoughts. Read lines 1, 3 and 4. He regrets no time to write lots of books full of great ideas. In the second section he contemplates images, dreams and the subject matter he will not now be able to translate into poems. In the third section he says he will never more see his beloved Fanny Brawne.
  
  These first three sections deal with things that he will no longer be able to do. In the final section he tells what he will be able to do. He sees himself able to clearly contemplate the universe and able to do so until he finally fades away and dies. By reading line 1 and then jumping forward to read this last section you will encompass what he can do.
• on About The Nightingale by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, on May 29, 2005

  From one end of the nightingale you get beautiful music but from the other end you don't!
  
  To put it crudely, in more ways than one, Coleridge is saying that the nightingale's farts are not a musical sound.
  
  Crudely continuing (my Latin grammar is non-existent but I think you'll get the idea):
  Aeolio: relating to Aeolus, god of the winds. Aeolia, the mother of all winds
  crepitu: to break wind with noise
  non carmine: not song-like or tuneful. Carmen=song; Bizet's operatic heroine is well-named.
  
  
  Edited on May 29, 5:33 p.m. because ''.