Summer 2013: The Platypus Travels Part XL

- 
Our travels now are ended.  These our pictures,
As I foretold you, were all pixels and
Are melted into air, into thin air:
And, like the baseless fabric of this blog-p'st,
The cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces,
The solemn temples, the great globe itself,
Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve
And, like this insubstantial pageant faded,
Leave not a rack behind.  We are such stuff
As dreams are made on, and our little life
Is rounded with a sleep.
 






Summer travels 2013: Italy and New England 
 





































Comments








Post a Comment













Popular posts from this blog









The Platypus Reads Part XXVII






-















 Thoughts after reading the "Iliad" to prepare a Greece unit for my students:   -Hector is a jerk until he's dead.  He even advocates the exposure of Achaean corpses and then has the cheek to turn around and ask Achilles to spare his.  He rudely ignores Polydamas' prophecies and fights outside the gate to save his pride knowing full well what it will cost his family and city.  After he's dead, he becomes a martyr for the cause.   -Agamemnon has several moments of true leadership to balance out his pettiness.  In this way, he's a haunting foil to Achilles: the two men are more alike than they want to acknowledge.   -We see that Achilles is the better man at the funeral games of Patroclos.  His lordliness, tact, and generosity there give us a window into Achilles before his fight with Agamemnon and the death of Patroclos consumed him.   -Nestor is a boring, rambling, old man who's better days are far behind him, and yet every Achaean treats him with the upmo...








Read more