Month: March 2016

American poetry

In the 19th century American poetry was a major part of everyday life, everything from hymn and a love song to patriotic exhortation. The 19th century open up the diversity and vigor of traditions. It embraces the genius storytellers and solitary visionaries, dissidents and humorists, philosophers and songwriters.

The evolution of American poetry has been taking place from the monumental works of Emily Dickinson and Herman Melville up to the modern poets like Edwin Arlington Robinson and T.S. Elliot. The poetry reflected everything: antislavery protests and poetic calls to arms in the marching songs. It also left on the paper muted post bellum expressions of reconciliation and grief: ushered in a period of accelerating change and widening regional perspectives. Among the unfamiliar pleasures to be savored in this essay are the penetrating meditations of the reclusive Frederick Goddard Tuckerman, the eloquent lyricism of Emma Lazarus, the mournful, superbly crafted fin de sickle verse of Trumbull Stickney.

Definition of Irony

The word irony came from Greek language and initially meant “eiron” – dissembler. Definition of Irony actually means that in some way the appearance of things is different from what they are in reality in terms of action, situation or meaning.

That is quite unusual when there is a gap between what is said and what is meant, and that would represent verbal irony. Dramatic irony shows the difference between what is thought about a situation and reality.

Wild land fire

Wild land fire on the lands around us can very dangerous. They are not only capable of destroying resources such as forests and fields but can also cause damage to the historic cultural resources that we want to protect. A good example of such fire damages is the recent fire in Mesa Verde National Park. Around 1996, a thousand years the heat of wildfire irreparably damaged old petroglyph.  The apparently indelible images in the sandstone can be exfoliated away under sustained intense heat.

The damage to cultural resources that wild land fire can bring, is not only caused by the head from the fire but also by the actions of those who are trying to fight the fire. In early years of fire fighting, fighters that were not informed about laws banning the removal of artifacts basically destroyed archeologically important sites when suppressing the fire.  A lot was done to prevent such things from occurring in the future, but there is still much to be completely understood and figured out.

George Frideric Handel is probably the first German composer that became famous all over the world. He only spent about twenty years of his life in Germany. He always considered England his homeland; he lived there 47 years and created most of his works there.

Composer first used the pseudonym Handel in Italy and afterwards always called himself George Frideric Handel, which is unusual, since the common spelling of the name is Frederic. Handel dreamt of becoming English, maybe that was the reason for changing name and taking pseudonym. Since Handel spent most of his life in London, we can say that he managed to become one.