Wordless Wednesday: Black Swallowtail on lantana
Poetry Sunday: Excerpt from The Cure at Troy by Seamus Heaney
In his speech accepting the Democratic nomination for president last Thursday, Vice-President Biden quoted from a work by the great Irish poet Seamus Heaney. I was not familiar with the poem and so I had to look it up. It is from a work entitled The Cure at Troy which was an adaptation by Heaney, written in verse, of Sophocles' play, Philoctetes . Philoctetes was a Greek master archer who was abandoned on a desert island by his fellow soldiers and countrymen and was later asked by the Greeks to return to fight in the Trojan War. The work was published in 1991 and in writing it, Heaney evidently was thinking of "The Troubles" in Northern Ireland. It seems to fit equally well our own troubles of today. It is a poem for all times. Verses from The Cure at Troy by Seamus Heaney Human beings suffer They torture one another, They get hurt and get hard. No poem or play or song Can fully right a wrong Inflicted and endured. The innocent in gaols Beat on their bars together.
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ReplyDeleteThis is the adult version of the caterpillar that I featured in my Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day post.
DeleteWow! I wish I could take pics of butterflies! I've taken pics of flowers with bees and other bugs on them, but I've never been lucky enough to capture a butterfly or a dragonfly in flight.
ReplyDeleteYou sorta have to get lucky. I probably take at least ten for every one that's a keeper.
DeleteBeautiful pictures, Dorothy. All butterflies have left my gardens now; frost is thick on the ground. P x
ReplyDeleteWe don't usually get our first frost until December so I hope to be able to enjoy them for several more weeks.
DeleteBeautiful! We got some snow yesterday and our first frost today. So our growing season is over. (and yet I saw a butterfly today, perhaps a late monarch).
ReplyDeleteSnow? Wow! Isn't it a bit early for that?
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