Happy World Poetry Day, guys!
For today, I’m gonna post my favorite excerpts from my alltime favorite poems. (More under the cut)
“And these words shall then become
Like Oppression’s thundered doom
Ringing through each heart and brain,
Heard again — again — again —
Rise like lions after slumber
In unvanquishable number —
Shake your chains to earth like dew
Which in sleep had fallen on you —
Ye are many — they are few.”
- Percy Shelley, “The Mask of Anarchy” (1819)
"Just as you feel when you look on the river and sky, so I felt, [...]
What is it then between us?
What is the count of the scores or hundreds of years between us? [...]
Closer yet I approach you,
What thought you have of me now, I had as much of you—I laid in my stores in advance,
I consider’d long and seriously of you before you were born.
Who was to know what should come home to me?
Who knows but I am enjoying this?
Who knows, for all the distance, but I am as good as looking at you now, for all you cannot see me?"
-Walt Whitman, "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry" (1856)
"Fair youth, beneath the trees, thou canst not leave
Thy song, nor ever can those trees be bare;
Bold Lover, never, never canst thou kiss,
Though winning near the goal yet, do not grieve;
She cannot fade, though thou hast not thy bliss,
For ever wilt thou love, and she be fair!"
-John Keats, "Ode on a Grecian Urn" (1819)
"Enough of Science and of Art;
Close up those barren leaves;
Come forth, and bring with you a heart
That watches and receives."
-William Wordsworth, "The Tables Turned" (1798)
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Review: The Exorcist (1973)
The Exorcist is one of those classic horror movies that everyone always says you need to see. It's also one I've wanted to watch for a very long time, but never got around to watching it until now and somehow never had it spoiled for me.
The movie is about a 12 year old girl, Regan, that gets possed by a demon. That is the very basic summary.
I was not at all expecting the movie to go the way it did though. Most horror movies follow a pretty linear story structure without any secondary plotline, but not this one.
The Exorcist has the main story with Regan and her mom for the first hour or so, but alongside it you have a story about a priest and his struggle being a priest.
He's struggling being away from his mother and he hates that she's there all alone.
Not only that at the very start we see this other priest in Iraq who we don't see again until the very end of the movie. All these plots come together very nicely and mesh really well.
The movie itself holds up really well for being almost 50 years old. The effects are still really well done, mainly because they don't try to do anything crazy like Star Wars did.
However, some people would say this movie is the scariest movie ever made, but that is not true. In fact it's far from the truth.
I wouldn't really say this movie is scary, if anything it's unnerving at best.
Linda Blair, the actor for Ragen was really great. It's only recently that child actors have gotten really great, but Regan was genuinely one of the best characters in the entire movie.
Unfortunately, she was treated pretty poorly on set.
In conclusion, I think The Exorcist is a pretty good movie that deserves the title of being a classic horror movie.
I do think it should be seen at least once, but I don't think it's one of the best or scariest movies out there like people claim it to be, but it's definitely not bad at all.
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