tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3407624264627208128.post1996069030976187488..comments2024-01-26T21:38:25.924-08:00Comments on Duane's PoeTree: Amita Sarjit Ahluwalia writesDuanesPoeTreehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17053093400086634552noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3407624264627208128.post-69648915590067803562020-04-28T12:39:42.577-07:002020-04-28T12:39:42.577-07:00Thank you for expanding on and providing a detaile...Thank you for expanding on and providing a detailed reference to my Ovid allusion, Duane Vorhees !Amita Paulhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07376193668131244984noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3407624264627208128.post-11329731750906901582020-04-28T12:12:12.688-07:002020-04-28T12:12:12.688-07:00In "Ars Poetica" Quintus Horatius Flaccu...In "Ars Poetica" Quintus Horatius Flaccus discussed what to avoid in a poem's opening, using one of Aesop's well-known fables as illustration:<br /><br />And don’t start like the old writer of epic cycles:<br />‘Of Priam’s fate I’ll sing, and the greatest of Wars.’<br />What could he produce to match his opening promise?<br />Mountains will labour: what’s born? A ridiculous mouse! <br /><br />The allusion was to speech acts which promise much but deliver little, especially in literary and political contexts. Nast's cartoon in the May 1982 "Harper's Weekly" satirized Horace Greeley's nomination as president by the Democratic Party and the Liberal Republcans, a party that broke off from the Republican Party. Greeley, the editor of the "New York Tribune," had no political or government experience, was notorious for his eccentric, erratic persona and his support of a wide variety of fringe ideas from vegetarianism to spiritualism, as well as his frequent reversals of opinion. He lost to incumbent president Ulysses S. Grant; Grant's winning percentage was the highest between 1828 and 1904, while Greeley's losing percentage was the lowest between 1848 and 1904.DuanesPoeTreehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17053093400086634552noreply@blogger.com