IS Blog » dahlstrom http://blog.islandschool.org Mon, 26 Dec 2016 16:00:26 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.2 Omeros http://blog.islandschool.org/2010/03/27/omeros/ http://blog.islandschool.org/2010/03/27/omeros/#comments Sat, 27 Mar 2010 11:02:33 +0000 http://islandschool.wordpress.com/?p=290 Students grabbed Walcott’s representation of a seasonal storm:

all the village could do was listen to the gods in session,

playing any instruments that came into their craniums,

the harp-sighing ripple of a hither-and-zithering sea,

the knucklebone pebbles, the abrupt Shango drums

made Neptune-rock in the caves. Fete start!

]]> http://blog.islandschool.org/2010/03/27/omeros/feed/ 0 Omeros quote of the day http://blog.islandschool.org/2010/03/23/omeros-of-the-day/ http://blog.islandschool.org/2010/03/23/omeros-of-the-day/#comments Wed, 24 Mar 2010 01:05:05 +0000 http://islandschool.wordpress.com/?p=235 Chapter VI, p.37: Helen, at a stall selling T-shirts from racks.

“and just as a pantheress stops swinging its tail
to lightly leap into grass, she yawned and entered
a thicket of palm-printed cloth, while I stood there…”

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