Okkkkayyy, well i like romance novels....happy endings, and easy to understand.
here is the list: (yeah, its long! so if you can point out ones you would think I like. I only have to read four)
Run Silent, Run Deep Edward L. Beach
A Walk across America Peter Jenkins
The Inn of the Sixth Happiness Alan Burgess
Across Five Aprils Irene Hunt
April Morning Howard Fast
The Caine Mutiny Court Martial Herman Wouk
The Ox-Bow Incident Walter Van Tilburg Clark
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Maya Angelou
Jacob Have I Loved Katherine Patterson
Words by Heart Ouida Sebestyen
Homecoming Cynthia Voigt
The Summer of My German Soldier Bette Greene
Strong at Broken Places Max Cleland
I Heard the Owl Call My Name Margaret Craven
The Bridge of San Luis Rey Thornton Wilder
Ice Castles Leonore Fleischer
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Jamaica Inn Daphne Du Maurier
Nine Coaches Waiting Mary Stewart
Z for Zachariah Robert C. O’Brien
The Other Thomas Tryon
The Fantastic Voyage Isaac Asimov
Lost Horizon James Hilton
The Hollow Hills Mary Stewart
To Sir with Love E. R. Braithwaite
The Hiding Place Corrie Ten Boom
Up the Down Staircase Bel Kaufmann
I Am Third Gail Sayers with Al Silverman
The Contender Robert Lipsyte
The Teahouse of the August Moon John Patrick
The Dollmaker Harriette Arnow
Go Up for the Glory Bill Russell
Cold Sassy Tree Olive Ann Burns
The African Queen C S Forester
All Quiet on the Western Front Erich Remarque
Christy Catherine Marshall
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter Carson Mc Cullers
David Copperfield Charles Dickens
The Sun Also Rises Ernest Hemingway
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court Mark Twain
West with the Night Beryl Markham
Rebecca Daphne Du Maurier
Clouds of Witness Dorothy Sayers
Little Women Louisa May Alcott
The Thornbirds Colleen Mc Cullough
Roots Alex Haley
The Dollmaker Hariette Arnow
Watership Down Richard Adams
Cry the Beloved Country Alan Paton
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee Dee Brown
All the President’s Men Woodward & Bernstein
Eric Doris Lund
Profiles in Courage John F. Kennedy
Anna and the King of Siam Margaret Landon
Foundation Isaac Asimov
Go Tell It on the Mountain James Baldwin
Run Silent, Run Deep Edward Beach
The Inn of Sixth Happiness Alan Brugess
The Stranger Albert Camus
Sister Carrie Theodore Dreiser
Fragments of Isabella Isabella Leitner
Babbitt Sinclair Lewis
Coming into the Country John McPhee
The Mask of Apollo Mary Renault
A Reckoning May Sarton
Other People’s Houses Lore Segal
The Gates of Zion Bodie Thoene
Things Invisible to See Nancy Willard
A Death in the Family James Agee
Becket Jean Anouilh
right now im thinking either "Jacob have I loved" or "ice castles." OPINIONS? :)
What is the meter of this poem? Thanks!
Lady with a Falcon
Flemish tapestry, fifteenth century
Gentleness and starvation tame
The falcon to this lady’s wrist.
Natural flight hooded from blame
By what ironic fate or twist?
For now the hunched bird’s contained flight
Pounces upon her inward air,
To plunder that mysterious night
Of poems blooded as the hare.
Heavy becomes the lady’s hand,
And heavy bends the gentle head
Over her hunched and brooding bird
Until it is she who seems hooded.
Lady, your falcon is a peril.
IS starved, is mastered, but not kind.
The bird who sits your hand so gentle,
The captured hunter hunts your minds.
Better to stare the senseless wind
Than wrist a falcon’s stop and start:
The bolt of flight you thought o bend
Plummets into your inmost heart.
What is the meaning/ analysis of this poem:
Lady with a Falcon
Flemish tapestry, fifteenth century
Gentleness and starvation tame
The falcon to this lady’s wrist.
Natural flight hooded from blame
By what ironic fate or twist?
For now the hunched bird’s contained flight
Pounces upon her inward air,
To plunder that mysterious night
Of poems blooded as the hare.
Heavy becomes the lady’s hand,
And heavy bends the gentle head
Over her hunched and brooding bird
Until it is she who seems hooded.
Lady, your falcon is a peril.
IS starved, is mastered, but not kind.
The bird who sits your hand so gentle,
The captured hunter hunts your minds.
Better to stare the senseless wind
Than wrist a falcon’s stop and start:
The bolt of flight you thought o bend
Plummets into your inmost heart.
May Sarton's first two novels had European settings, but after 1955 New England provided the background for most her fiction.
What does the correct sentence mean?
"And courteous in every other way,
Would not brook anything that would keep him from
Those lively dialogues with man's whole past
That was his intimate and fruitless pleasure."
what do you think??
this is the poem, however i am a little lost in what the poet was trying to convey
help is appreciated :)
We have walked, looked at the actual trees:
The chestnut leaves wide-open like a hand,
The beech leaves bronzing under every breeze,
We have felt flowing through our knees
As if we were the wind.
We have sat silent when two horses came,
Jangling their harness, to mow the long grass.
We have sat long and never found a name
For this suspension in the heart of flame
That does not pass.
We have said nothing; we have parted often,
Not looking back, as if departure took
An absolute of will--once not again
(But this is each day's feat, as when
The heart first shook).
Where fervor opens every instant so,
There is no instant that is not a curve,
And we are always coming as we go;
We lean toward the meeting that will show
Love's very nerve.
And so exposed (O leaves before the wind!)
We bear this flowing fire, forever free,
And learn through devious paths to find
The whole, the center, and perhaps unbind
The mystery
Where there are no roots, only fervent leaves,
Nourished on meditations and the air,
Where all that comes is also all that leaves,
And every hope compassionately lives
Close to despair.
sorry that the spacing is off
they should be in stanzas of 5 lines
kevin s you are a smart person Thanks so much :)
I have to find a website that has critiqued a poem called AIDS by May Sarton! Is there such a website where like magazies or someone reputable has critiqued this poem?
"WIthout darkness, nothing comes to birht. As without light, nothing flowers" May Sarton
I have to write about this quote but i don't know what it means. can you please help
My teacher gave the title of a poem that we'll have to analyze, and I'd like to read over it, but I can't find it anywhere. It's called "Lady With a Falcon" by May Sarton. Does anyone know where to find it?
When I "googled" it, I could only find "Lady With a Falcon on Her Fist" by Richard Lovelace, which is not what I'm looking for.
"Yesterday I was clever. That is why I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise. That is why I am changing myself".
I begin to set goals and change myself. But alas..
"The actual arrival at a goal always creates a turmoil unconnected to any previous imaginings." - David Whyte
I am defeated once again. So now I am wondering..
"It is time I came back to my real life. After this voyage to an island with no name, where I lay down at sunrise drunk with light." - May Sarton
How often do you feel so dejected with life?
How often do you feel life is such an unfinished journey?
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"Yesterday I was clever. That is why I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise. That is why I am changing myself".
I begin to set goals and change myself. But alas..
"The actual arrival at a goal always creates a turmoil unconnected to any previous imaginings." - David Whyte
I am defeated once again. So now I am wondering..
"It is time I came back to my real life. After this voyage to an island with no name, where I lay down at sunrise drunk with light." - May Sarton
How often do you feel so dejected with life? How often do you feel life is such an unfinished journey?
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No matter how bad a state of mind you may get into, if you keep strong and hold out, eventually the floating clouds must vanish and the withering winds must cease.
Eihei Dogen
1200-1253, Japanese Zen Master, Philosopher, Poet, Painter, Soto School Founder
in The Pocket Zen Reader, Thomas Cleary, ed., 1999
Despair is a mental state which exaggerates not only our misery but also our weakness.
Marquis de Vauvenargues
1715-1747, French Militarist, Moralist
It is despair, and despair alone, that begets heroic hope, absurd hope, mad hope.
Miguel de Unamuno
1864-1936, Spanish Philosopher
Noble deeds and hot baths are the best cures for depression.
Dodie Smith
1896-1990, English Dramatist, Writer
I Capture the Castle, 1948
Now that I seem to have attained a temporary calm, I understand how valuable unhappiness can be; melancholy and remorse form the deep leaden keel which enables us to sail into the wind of reality; we run aground sooner than the flat-bottomed pleasure-lovers, but we venture out in weather that would sink them, and we choose our direction.
Cyril Connolly
The Unquiet Grave, 1944
But the storm, painful as it is, might have had some truth in it. So sometimes one has simply to endure a period of depression for what it may hold of illumination if one can live through it, attentive to what it exposes or demands.
~ May Sarton
1912-1995, American Poet, Writer
Journal of a Solitude
Distress tends to make you feel constricted in your personal identity, but if you are thinking of the distress of the whole of humanity, or even just the sadness of people around you in your everyday life, you begin to realize how puny your concern for yourself is.
Vilayat Khan
1916-2004, Indian-British Sufi Master, Writer
Awakening: A Sufi Experience<, 1999
Hopelessness can arise, I think, only from an inability to face the present, to live in the present, to live as a responsible being among other beings in this sacred world here and now, which is all we have, and all we need to found our hope upon.
Ursula Le Guin
1929-, American Writer, Critic, Feminist
I need the following books:
May Sarton, The Small Room Norton (paperback) ISBN 0-393-00832-0
Anne Michaels, Fugitive Pieces Random (paperback) ISBN 0-679-77659-1
Lloyd Jones, Mister Pip Dial Press (paperback) ISBN 13: 9780385341073
ISBN 10: 0385341075
H.Svi Shapiro, Losing Heart: The Moral and Spiritual Miseducation of America’s Children Lawrence Erlbaum (paperback) ISBN 10: 0805857222
ISBN 13: 978080585221
Mark Edmundson, Why Read? Bloomsbury (paperback) ISBN1-58234-608-9
“There is strong reason to believe that St. Paul fabricated the belief system of Christianity from Zoroastrian mythology. In order to hide Paul’s plaigerism… Christians burned the library of Alexandria in 390 A.D. Books in that library kept Mithra’s original story of what Pauline Doctrine is an almost exact copy. (George Sarton , Introduction to History of Sciences)
Paul was supposedly born and raised in the city of Tarsus, a region in SE Asia-Minor (now called Turkey) where Mithra was well known. Biblical scholars are now saying that Paul, the alleged author of 13 out of the 27 (maybe more) books of the New Testament, may have been influenced in his writings by this strong religion of Mithraism. We can see a profound kinship between Mithraism and Christianity.
In-as-much as Mithraism was so popular in Rome, it is no wonder why the pagan Emperor Constantine, who believed in the sun god, Mithras, designated a certain day of the week to him, Sunday, which means, “the day of the sun.”
The original "Christian" faith became a mix of pagan, Mithramic, Jeudeo/Christian teaching. This lead to the confusing mix of theology that we have today within the "Christian" community. This apostacy from the original simple and plain teachings of Christ was accelerated by the persecutions and killings of any who tried to support the "old" ways. Maybe this solves the mystery of the “ungodly” marriage between Mithraism and the cult of Jesus. As it turns out, it was all for political convenience! But, Christians think they are better than that today. In short: The "Christianity" they have today has almost no relationship, in doctrine or in way of life, to the "the original teachings of Jesus."
Did Paul take the life of a beloved rabbi, Yeshua ben Yoseph, and apply the story of Mithra to invent a Christ?
My son who is a six grader is doing homework, we need to find poems written by May Sarton, the only thing we found were her books published. Can somebody help?
im doing a paper on human worth and i was wondering what you all thought of what human worth is and how ppl acheive human worth and if u have read as we are now by may sarton and can link human worth to the story that would be great!!
