The City as a Forest

The City as a Forest The concrete roots run deep beneath the square, a canopy of wires, thin and bare. The traffic lights, red-yellow-green that bloom, are strange, quick flowers in the engine's gloom. A pigeon nests where gargoyles used to weep; the city's wildness never truly sleeps. The steel skyscraper, reaching for the sun, is just a tree whose growing's never done.

The Anatomy of a Memory

The Anatomy of Memory The air was the specific scent of rain on dust, a metal tang of playground bars, and rust. A yellow plastic bucket, overturned, the silent lesson that the summer burned too brightly, and then left a cool, dark void. I can't recall the words that were employed, but only the slight tilt of your head, a silent promise that was left unsaid.

We were together I forgot the rest

Walt Whitman (/ˈhwɪtmən/; May 31, 1819 – March 26, 1892) was an American poet, essayist, and journalist.Whitman's major work, Leaves of Grass, was first published in 1855. The work was an attempt at reaching out to the common person with an American epic. This is a bit of a paraphrase from his poem, Leaves of Grass: It actually says, “Day by day and night by night we were together,—All else has long been forgotten by me.”⠀

Birthday of Kahlil Gibran

Gibran Khalil Gibran,January 6, 1883 – April 10, 1931), usually referred to in English as Kahlil Gibran was a Lebanese-American writer, poet and visual artist, also considered a philosopher although he himself rejected this title.He is best known as the author of The Prophet, which was first published in the United States in 1923 and is one of the best-selling books of all time, having been translated into more than 100 languages.

Virginia Woolf,A Room of One's Own

A Room of One's Own is an extended essay by Virginia Woolf, first published in September 1929. The work is based on two lectures Woolf delivered in October 1928 at Newnham College and Girton College, women's constituent colleges at the University of Cambridge.

New Historicism

New Historicism is a literary critical movement, which first developed in the 1980s. The new historical approach emphasizes the cultural context in which text is produced, rather than focusing exclusively on the formal structure of the text itself. New Historicism posits that literary works are not singular or solitary forms, but, instead, a product of different networks of socio-material practices. As such, literary works should be interpreted, not for their universal themes or historical content, but for their meaning as objects embedded in a certain socio-historical milieu. Thus, to understand a literary text, critics need to first understand the author's background and the cultural context in which the work was produced.

Women are strong

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