Clarity and Obscurity:The Essences of Classicism and Modernism Compared
Classical and modern poetry are inarguably different. Indeed, modernism’s chief boast is its break with classicism and tradition more...
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By Daniel Leach
- Aug 11
- 1 min
Late Summer
Late summer, and the silvery undersides Of the leaves shimmer in the hazy air, And the cicadas’ song wells up in tides That wash over my...
By Karel Vereycken
- Aug 9
- 16 min
Van Eyck: True Beauty, a Foretaste of Divine Wisdom
Jan Van Eyck (1390-1441). How might we grasp the intention of this great Flemish painter, despite the five hundred years separating us?...
By Michael R. Burch
- Aug 5
- 1 min
Safe Harbor
for Kevin Nicholas Roberts (1969-2008) The sea at night seems an alembic of dreams— the moans of the gulls, the foghorns’ bawlings. A...
By Johnny Payne
- Aug 4
- 1 min
Death Letter
The barrel stave was riven where she drank. Knots nestled, she lay on the cooling board a trestle made of evenly sawed planks. I’d built...
Fr. Dwight Longenecker
- Aug 1
- 4 min
Listening to "Little Gidding"
It would seem with the opening of “Little Gidding” that Eliot has relapsed once again into his habit of opaque language, obscure...
By David B. Gosselin
- Jul 24
- 11 min
Poetry, Art and Civilization Today: Reflections on Shelley's "A Defence of Poetry"
In honor of the 200th anniversary of Percy Bysshe Shelley's death, The Chained Muse is proud to present a month-long celebration of life...
Translation
- Jul 17
- 1 min
Lines from Laolao Pavillion & Other Poetry
Lines from Laolao Ting Pavilion by Li Bai (701-762) loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch The spring breeze knows partings...
John H. B. Martin
- Jul 15
- 1 min
Song of the Somme
(1st July - 18th November, 1916) to commemorate an omniversary May Seamus Heaney drown in his own mud! His way of writing isn't what I...
By Rowland Hughes
- Jul 11
- 1 min
Child in the Café
Sat in the toy corner, withdrawn from the conversations around him. He opens a world of imagination, where the wooden blocks are windows...
By Caitlin Johnstone
- Jul 11
- 1 min
To Do List
Laundry. Vacuum. Roar at the sky. Get cat food. Get Pentagon de-funded. Win imaginary argument with God. Lose actual argument with God....
By Adam Sedia
- Jul 7
- 5 min
Beyond the Lines: Shelley's "Ozymandias"
In honor of the 200th anniversary of Percy Bysshe Shelley's death, The Chained Muse is proud to present a month-long celebration of life...