It's Greek To Me
...Aeschylus: "Agamemnon"
A man in exile
Feeds himself on barren hope
Yields to fate in time
Aeschylus: "Prometheus Unbound"
Life's hard lesson
Wrong is shameful in the old
Time instructs u...
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Categories:
aristophanes, philosophy,
Form: Senryu
Aristophanes: a Playwright I Adore
...Aristophanes, my favourite Attic writer,
When he had pen in hand, was a fighter
Politics and poetics: his precious topics
I know not politics, he loved but poetics
Aristophanes, my favourite A...
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Categories:
aristophanes, beauty, humor, smile,
Form: Clerihew
Dark Drama Danced
...tamed tragedy wept
whooshing wail crept
vying voluptuous trait
callous comedy create
mystic metamorphoses moaned
felon form cloned
like taunted torrent
rustic waves rent
hoisted horizon etc...
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Categories:
aristophanes, hero,
Form: Sonnet
Hemlock Or the Power To Mock
...What killed Socrates.
a weed or Aristophanes?
What caused an end so dire?
The law or just satire?
The cries of ignorant crowds.
or something in 'The Clouds'?...
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Categories:
aristophanes, america, death, philosophy, satire,
Form: Epitaph
Thoughts of a Middot
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Thoughts of a “Mid-Dot : (•)”
A couple of centuries back, I was recognized,
marked as mid-dot ; all were mesmerized.
I was most required for all. I was utilized
in literature exten...
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Categories:
aristophanes, write,
Form: Verse
List To Live By
...Be born (or get born if you prefer)
If you are a woman – Give birth
Remember your name when in a foreign land
(If you don't have one make one up)
Breathe only air and at the appropriate time
Dri...
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Categories:
aristophanes, adventure, appreciation, crazy, education,
Form: Didactic
Unquotable Quotes: Teachers - Xxi
...Unquotable quotes: Teachers – XXI
The pupil, the ***** and the walnut tree, the more the teacher beats them, the better they be.
In the old days, teachers were born to the métier like poets; t...
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Categories:
aristophanes, children, humor, parents, student,
Form: Epigram