Wednesday, November 5, 2008

Easter, 1916 wiki

I edited the wikipedia page of W.B. Yeats' poem Easter, 1916

The page was sparse when I first found it so I beefed up some of the interpretation and explanation: the inclusion of the traditionally heroic descriptions of the second stanza, the discussion on the natural imagery of the third stanza (namely the interpretation of the stone and the river), the discussion on the continued stone imagery in the fourth stanza, the role of heaven and humans in the fourth stanza, the Home Rule Act of 1914 link, and the discussion of the historical and political tension in writing on the revolutionaries (last paragraph). I also added the line numbers of the cited lines from the poem.

I guess I should really get a more interesting hobby if I could only think of editing a wiki page on a modernist poem, shouldn't I?

Tuesday, November 4, 2008

In celebration of democracy

Yay democracy!

May contain some coarse language, but what else would you expect from South Park?

Monday, November 3, 2008