the stage performers, nor does she have her hair all gussied up, "No Ringlet, to my Hair." And naturally, since she is not a ballet dancer and does not know the art, she has never "hopped to Audiences--like Birds,/One Claw upon the Air."She becomes a bit supercilious here comparing the ballerinas to birds hopping, and offers the fascinating image of the ballerina's upturned hand as it resembles a bird with "One Claw upon the Air."
from Linda Sue Grimes: Suite101.com: Dickinson's "I cannot dance upon my Toes"
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Bill Morgan‘s skillfully crafted piece features three unrimed verse paragraphs, rendering a magnificent dramatization of the birds stripping foxtails in a snowy field. Despite its flaws, the poem speaks powerfully and minus the regrettable final line could very well serve as a Christmas season testimony to the birth of Divine love for all creatures.
from Linda Sue Grimes: Suite101.com: Morgan's "Six Tree Sparrows"
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The speaker places himself in his upstairs room writing: "Between my finger and my thumb/The squat pen rests; as snug as a gun." The slant rime of thumb and gun implies the old adage, "The pen is mightier than the sword." But soon the reader learns that the war this writer fights is of a very different nature from the soldier. His thoughts roam and muse on the nature of the war every living creature fights for survival.
from Linda Sue Grimes: Suite101.com: Seamus Heaney's "Digging"
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Still, the speaker cannot take total pleasure in and assurance for his rich output for "this abundant issue seem'd to me/But hope of orphans and unfather'd fruit." Even though he managed to fantasize a summer-like fecundity, his knows that factually "summer and his pleasures wait on thee."
He also finds that even the chirping, musical birds seem "mute " with "thou away."
from Linda Sue Grimes: Suite101.com: Shakespeare Sonnet 97
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The joys of the birds and the flowers are not sufficient to inspire the speaker to his usual state of creative elation. He cannot "any summer's story tell." His mood will not join the season, regardless of how he contemplates the beauty that surrounds him.
Although he is moved by the beauty of the flowers, he cannot be moved to "pluck them where they grew."
from Linda Sue Grimes: Suite101.com: Shakespeare Sonnet 98
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Finally, the speaker claims that in addition to the violet, lily, and rose, he has observed other flowers, and all of them have behaved just as the first three had: all of the flowers had stolen their qualities from his love. The implication is that his love, his poetry, is capable of containing and sustaining the beauty of all flowers, and thus is more permanent, for the poetry can survive for centuries while the flowers, those little thieves, will survive for a season, at best.
from Linda Sue Grimes: Suite101.com: Shakespeare Sonnet 99
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Guruji avers that the blueprint for the marvelous hermitage and meditation gardens had existed in the ether throughout eternity, and then "it came wafting--enchanting, entrancing--/Down the arches of the ancient years."
After he came to America from India, he had searched in other locations for the building and grounds that would match his vision.
from Linda Sue Grimes: Suite101.com: Yogananda's Dream Hermitage
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