After listening and enjoying a number of William B. Yeats poems beautifully recited and explained by our dear teacher, I went to look at his pictures. He was a handsome man with a debonair look, and wearing those quite charming pince-nez spectacles, who were auctioned in 2017. Our teacher also would be quite charming wearing a pince-nez.
Is Ocham's Razor too much? If you do it, do it right. It is used to pick a preferable theory from competing theories of equal explanatory power. [ I wonder what other word I could use here in place of 'power' ? ]
@@iswearenglish I am not satisfied with any of those words for what I mean to say. Rarely find myself in this position. Talking about talk has its difficulties. A beacon in that regard is Lee's Elucidation: A finite number of words must be made to represent an infinite number of things and possibilities. Language Habits in Human Affairs, 1941. I got it! 'Plasability'.
Looks like violence begets violence as Peace begets Peace. What a coincidence; today is the feast of the Patron saint of our school St.Agnes renowned for her beauty and purity ;having a host of suitors at 12, one of whom was struck dead because he attempted to violate her.Her pristine presence was such that his life was restored to him. His own father feeling powerless, before her titan strength had no more to do with her. She was to be led naked to a brothel but the bystanders saw only her hair which miraculously covered her body.She was to be burned but the flames moved away from her,searing only the wood Finally, she was beheaded by a Roman soldier. She is depicted with a lamb in her arms
Leda and swan poem depicts act of rape .the poem graphic imagery leaves no doubt that Zeus , in form of swan, violently assaulted leda . At same time, however poem seems to revel in sensuality even as it lay bare brutality of Leda rape and its equally brutal consequence- Trojan war .
