This one act play is a dark comedy/drama for 3 females, 2 males. As wind sweeps through a garden, its inhabitants must confront the volatile effects of Mother Nature, as well as their own evolving... More > natures. The story follows several short, intertwined pieces, as Carrot and Potato, taught to be enemies from birth, struggle to remain friends, Tulip wants more out of life than only her partner, and two pieces of pollen attempt to make a dangerous jump from a dying flower to a fresh one. Through sacrifice and friendship, they must not only survive their trials, but also come to populate another generation.< Less
If the Age of Reason was the masculine Yang, then it can be said Romanticism, invariably, was its creative feminine counterpoint, the Yin. Plato’s argumentative philosophical essays in The... More > Republic on the dynamism and contrast between sense (the head) and sensibility (the heart) was Kant’s discourse on phenomenon and its antipode, noumenon. Mathematics is abstract form but it is not beauty. A rose is beauty but it is not abstract form. The language of mathematics in scientific realism became a central component of the Age of Reason. In contrast, the language of the rose expressing abstract sentiment became a central component of Romanticism. Blake’s tyger is seen as raging and burning bright while Poe’s dreams come quietly in the dark of night. Both poets used Romantic language and allegories to convey different aspects of reason, sentiment, and intuition. The poet could not live his experience with his audience symbiotically but they could share in his experience empathically through his gift of words.< Less
Britain in the late 18th Century, early 19th Century was undergoing radical changes both
socially and culturally, these changes were reflected in the movement known as Romanticism.
The Romantics... More > sought to bring the human experience to the centre of their work.
This they tried to do by turning their back on the more classical approach and write poetry that reflected their subject matter.
All the poets included in this volume attempted to portray the lives, loves and desires
of themselves and ordinary people.
Although this was achieved in different styles ,the underlying question was the same.
In a time of Industrialisation and the dehumanisation of the human spirit , how do we retain our humanity?
Blake, Clare and Wordsworth all looked to nature and the imagination as the key.
It is testament to their ideas that even after centuries we still are influenced and respond to their poetry< Less
YESTERDAY, a romantic suspense novel, explores the simmering tension of the Nob Hill elites of San Francisco with the emerging subcultures of Haight-Ashbury and UC Berkeley in summer of 1966.
Kit... More > Larsen is joining her longtime love, Joe, in the City by the Bay, but he is killed on his last mission by the Vietcong. His friend and fellow soldier meets Kit and breaks the news.
Kit stays in California, lands a job in the most elite restaurant on Nob Hill, enrolls in a class at Berkeley, and attracts both a handsome young doctor and a member of an underground extremist group who frequently kidnaps and drowns those who upset its notion of Traditional American Values.
Fall in love with the early years of the peace movement as its members fight against the “old ways.” Root for the young women who are disappearing without a trace. Swoon with the crowd as The Beatles play their last concert at the end of summer. Will Co-Intel-Pro allow them to leave San Francisco unscathed?< Less
YESTERDAY, a Large Print version of a romantic suspense novel, explores the simmering tension of the Nob Hill elites of San Francisco with the emerging subcultures of Haight-Ashbury and UC Berkeley... More > in summer of 1966.
Kit Larsen, is joining her longtime love, Joe,not to marry him as he believes but to end their engagement. She doesn’t get the chance because he is killed on his last mission by the Vietcong. Kit stays in California, lands a job in an elite restaurant on Nob Hill, enrolls in a class at Berkeley, and attracts both a handsome young doctor and a member of an underground extremist group who frequently kidnaps and drowns those who upset their notion of Traditional American Values.
Fall in love with the early years of the peace movement as its members fight against the “old ways”. Root for the young women who are disappearing without a trace. Swoon with the crowd as The Beatles play their last concert at the end of summer. Will Co-Intel-Pro allow them to leave San Francisco unscathed?< Less
YESTERDAY, a Large Print version of a romantic suspense novel, explores the simmering tension of the Nob Hill elites of San Francisco with the emerging subcultures of Haight-Ashbury and UC Berkeley... More > in summer of 1966.
Kit Larsen, is joining her longtime love, Joe,not to marry him as he believes but to end their engagement. She doesn’t get the chance because he is killed on his last mission by the Vietcong. Kit stays in California, lands a job in an elite restaurant on Nob Hill, enrolls in a class at Berkeley, and attracts both a handsome young doctor and a member of an underground extremist group who frequently kidnaps and drowns those who upset their notion of Traditional American Values.
Fall in love with the early years of the peace movement as its members fight against the “old ways”. Root for the young women who are disappearing without a trace. Swoon with the crowd as The Beatles play their last concert at the end of summer. Will Co-Intel-Pro allow them to leave San Francisco unscathed?< Less
YESTERDAY, a romantic suspense novel, explores the simmering tension of the Nob Hill elites of San Francisco with the emerging subcultures of Haight-Ashbury and UC Berkeley in summer of 1966.
Kit... More > Larsen is joining her longtime love, Joe, in the City by the Bay, but he is killed on his last mission by the Vietcong. His friend and fellow soldier meets Kit and breaks the news.
Kit stays in California, lands a job in the most elite restaurant on Nob Hill, enrolls in a class at Berkeley, and attracts both a handsome young doctor and a member of an underground extremist group who frequently kidnaps and drowns those who upset its notion of Traditional American Values.
Fall in love with the early years of the peace movement as its members fight against the “old ways.” Root for the young women who are disappearing without a trace. Swoon with the crowd as The Beatles play their last concert at the end of summer. Will Co-Intel-Pro allow them to leave San Francisco unscathed?< Less
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner is the longest major poem by the English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Along with other poems in Lyrical Ballads, it was a signal shift to modern poetry and the... More > beginning of British Romantic literature. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner relates the experiences of a sailor who has returned from a long sea voyage. The Mariner stops a man who is on the way to a wedding ceremony and begins to narrate a story. The Wedding-Guest's reaction turns from bemusement to impatience and fear to fascination as the Mariner's story progresses, as can be seen in the language style: for example, Coleridge uses narrative techniques such as personification and repetition to create either a sense of danger, of the supernatural or of serenity, depending on the mood of each of the different parts of the poem. The poem explores violation of nature and its resulting psychological effects on the Mariner, who interprets the fates of his crew to be a direct result of his having shot down an albatross.< Less
For killing an albatross, the mariner and his crew are punished with drought and death. Amidst a series of supernatural events, the mariner’s life alone is spared and he repents, but he must... More > wander the earth and tell his tale with the lesson that “all things great and small” are important.< Less
Somojo Magazine July 2009
Turku Romantic Movement
The Surf Rats
Jordan Galland
Cauldron Soundwerx Productions
Uge Ferradas
Dominique Watson
Interviews with Jen chats with Spleenveil &... More > Apocalipstick, Life As A Rock Star with Clint Hell frontman of Bodies and the independent music scene from Italy with IMIsound< Less
