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Pablo Neruda: “Sonnet LXXXI”
Posted by matt on 30 November 2007
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Yehudah Amichai: “Open closed open”
Posted by matt on 29 November 2007
Open closed open. Before we are born, everything is open
in the universe without us. For as long as we live, everything is closed
within us. And when we die, everything is open again.
Open closed open. That’s all we are.
Yehudah Amichai (1998)
Translated by Chana Bloch and Chana Kronfeld
Photo credit: Red Autumn Rose by bratjerm
Posted in Chana Bloch, Chana Kronfeld, Hebrew, Translation, Yehudah Amichai | 4 Comments »
William Blake: “The Tyger”
Posted by matt on 28 November 2007
Original plate for The Tyger by William Blake (b. 28 November 1757)
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Glauco Pessôa: “Pulso Descalço”
Posted by matt on 27 November 2007
“Barefoot Pulse”
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Wilfred Owen: “The Parable of the Young Man and the Old”
Posted by matt on 26 November 2007
The Parable of the Young Man and the Old
So Abram rose, and clave the wood, and went,
And took the fire with him, and a knife.
And as they sojourned, both of them together,
Isaac the first-born spake, and said, My Father,
Behold the preparations, fire and iron,
But where the lamb for this burnt-offering?
Then Abram bound the youth with belts and straps,
And builded parapets the trenches there,
And stretched forth the knife to slay his son.
When lo! an angel called him out of heaven,
Saying, Lay not thy hand upon the lad,
Neither do anything to him. Behold,
A ram, caught in a thicket by its horns;
Offer the Ram of Pride instead of him.
But the old man would not so, but slew his son,
And half the seed of Europe, one by one.
Wilfred Owen
Image of sculpture: “Abraham and Isaac” by George Segal (b. 26 November 1924)
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