In English literature, an owl usually indicates that death and tragedy are close at hand.
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As the world descended into The Great War, a freshly enlisted Edward Thomas drew upon this literary tradition to create "The Owl." In...

Between the hours of 2:30 and 3:30am, our journey through the lonely city streets takes a darker turn. Unpleasant memories are triggered and the world seems like a broken, twisted place. Our analysis of Stanzas 3, 4 and 5 makes studying...

As my school's senior English teacher I feel a personal, self inflicted pressure to convince my students that poetry has relevance and value in their lives. I want them to see that by reading and writing poetry they can share a part of...

A reading, summary, and analysis of Emily Dickinson's, "Because I could not stop for Death." This video explores how Dickinson takes a creepy concept, dying, and turns it into a date set to an upbeat tune.

Why do poets play with poetic form? How does it help them convey their ideas?

Join us as we delve into a range of poetic forms and stanzaic structures. Find out why some poets stick to traditional poetic structures, while others...

Discover Dobson’s quirky reflection on an everyday morning in Canberra.

Long morning shadows slant under cars, schoolkids chatter at the bus stop, and the bus driver listens to the radio. But why are the shadows compared to...

Tricky grammar.

Join us as we continue our detailed analysis of T.S. Eliot’s ‘The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock’. In this lesson, we will look at lines 37-54, examining T.S. Eliot’s use of poetic form and language to portray a man in...

Discover how Dobson uses a childhood memory of meeting an old man to explore human connections.

An old man and a child gaze out over the landscape. A morning mist has spread out over the hills. The two individuals never talk – they...

Why do we create art? Does the art we create change over time? And how can a poem that doesn't look like a poem help us answer those questions?

From the trenches of the Great War, Wilfred Owen composed some of the most haunting poetry of the 20th century. The war would eventually take hiss life, but not before he penned a warning for his and future generations about the...

Exploring collection of iptables logs into your Splunk installation.

• Enable iptables logging on your Linux ma
chine
• Modify inputs.conf to collect the fir
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• Search for the iptables
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Exploring how Splunk configurations are recorded in configuration files.

• Learn how Splunk configuration settings are s
tored
• Find the inputs.conf setting associated with your authentic
ation logs
• Using btool to...

Playing on the tradition of the interrupted lovers (who in this case are interrupted by the sun), Donne creates a metaphor that stretches the length of the poem. Stay tuned for a reading, summary, and analysis of one of my all time...

Four Weddings and a Funeral made this poem THE funeral poem. But did Auden actually want it to be sad? And does that actually matter? We'll explore that question in our reading, summary, and analysis of W.H. Auden's "Funeral Blues."

In this reading, summary, and analysis we'll look at Dylan Thomas's "Do not go gentle into that good night."

Why are some poems so long, while others finish in three lines? Well, it has something to do with poetic form.

Join us for this lesson on Perfecting Poetry where we’ll uncover a range of poetic forms and stanzaic structures. See...

Part of the lure of being a writer, is becoming immortal through our words. But authors aren't the only individuals who live on through the words, so do and maybe more so are their subjects. There may be no better way than that of the...

In this video we'll perform a reading, summary, and analysis of Edwin Arlington Robinson's poem, "Richard Cory." Written partly as a response to the Panic of 1893, "Richard Cory" challenges the typical notions of success and happiness.

The Elements of Poetry - Figurative language, meter and rhyme, simile, and metaphor . these are a few of the many topics explored in this lively video tour through the genre of poetry. Other elements illustrated in the program include:...

In this lesson you will learn how a poem's organization influences its meaning by asking how the stanzas in a poem fit together.