the years I was in college
One of my kids has started wearing his hair like a "Flock of Seagulls" to cheer me up. I can't help it. I look at him and laugh like a loon. He says he will cut it before school starts.
Posted on 05/25/2005 5:16:48 AM PDT by VRWCmember
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threnody \THREN-uh-dee\ noun
a song of lamentation for the dead; elegy
Example sentence:
In the opera's final scene, the leading lady sings a threnody to mourn the murdered king.
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"Threnody" encompasses all genres. There are great threnodies in prose (such as the lines from Charles Dickens' _Bleak House_ upon the death of Little Jo: "Dead, your Majesty. Dead, my lords and gentlemen. Dead..."), in poetry (as in W.H. Auden's "Funeral Blues": "The stars are not wanted now: put out every one, / Pack up the moon and dismantle the sun..."), and in music (Giovanni Pergolesi's "Stabat Mater," for one). "Threnody," which we borrowed from the Greek word "threnoidia" (from "threnos," the word for "dirge"), has survived in English since the early 1600s. "Melody" and "tragedy" are related to "threnody" through the Greek root that forms their ending -- "aeidein," which means "to sing." By the same token, "comedy" is related as well.
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Practice makes perfect.....post on....
I hadn't realized they had done that...geeze...this is what happens when kids are raised with no values....
Korn isn't particularly the favorite of KACteen, so that is good.
I'll stick with Moya Brennan and Clannad and such...lovely music.
the years I was in college
One of my kids has started wearing his hair like a "Flock of Seagulls" to cheer me up. I can't help it. I look at him and laugh like a loon. He says he will cut it before school starts.
Only, I last owned a record player in the 80's...
I still don't get where you were coming from though. But then again, I'm more dense than my usual, today, due to a bad headache. I never DID think of a use of "threnody."
Dilbert bought me a Detrola for Christmas. All of my old albums are out of the closet after a ten yeat hiatus...including Oscar Levant plays Gershwin.
Your kids love you lots, Dutchgirl. I can tell. Easily.
what is a detrola? we have a retro looking thing that plays records.
Made me want to watch. POPCORN!
(And I gotta admit, I have pulled some STUUUUPID stunts.)
Maybe I should go buy a victrola, hard wire it to my computer, and start transferring these things to CD.
Hmmm.
Amazing, isn't it? My nineteen year old has even agreed to go on a family vacation with us--I mean it- even being seen in public with his parents and younger brother.
Imagine someone 6'4" folding himself into the family station wagon. (It tore them up to see me cry last month. I am just not a weeper, except for sentimental movies.) They like to make fun of my "cackle". I laugh as though I am laying an egg.
ok, what in G_D's name is that supposed to be?
that is it exactly!
It's about a fella who's patient...
Happy Keester!!
Wie Du willst.
You like butter or no butter, xs?
(ducks and runs. LOL)
My sister had no husband, her son was grown, she heard strange voices in her head and asked to be excused from this life. I don't get it. I know that she is no longer in pain, but life is a gift!!
I drove past a sign today that said "Poverty is hereditary, you get it from your kids"...and my thought was-"That's a lie!" My children are my riches.
One of the hardest parts of this whole thing is dealing with my nephew. He is rudderless. My sister only had the strength to see him to adulthood.
I have in my hand, my youngest's mandatory "journal" from eighth grade. His title; "Paragon of Greatness." He gives his opinion on Title IX, T.V., School Spirit and Affirmative Action. Sample quotes:"Don't blame TV, blame the student." and "...being unaffected by school spirit I ask you 'how many girls want to play football?'"
I was trying to make sense out of it all...out of Life, the Universe and Everything when I came upon this scripture from the Upper Room: (I bought my sister a large print subscription.)
Job 38:1-18 (NRSV) Then the LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind: "Who is this that darkens counsel by words without knowledge? Gird up your loins like a man, I will question you, and you shall declare to me.
"Where were you when I laid the foundation of the earth? Tell me, if you have understanding. Who determined its measurements--surely you know! Or who stretched the line upon it? On what were its bases sunk, or who laid its cornerstone when the morning stars sang together and all the heavenly beings shouted for joy?
"Or who shut in the sea with doors when it burst out from the womb?-- when I made the clouds its garment, and thick darkness its swaddling band, and prescribed bounds for it, and set bars and doors, and said, 'Thus far shall you come, and no farther, and here shall your proud waves be stopped'?
"Have you commanded the morning since your days began, and caused the dawn to know its place, so that it might take hold of the skirts of the earth, and the wicked be shaken out of it? It is changed like clay under the seal, and it is dyed like a garment. Light is withheld from the wicked, and their uplifted arm is broken.
"Have you entered into the springs of the sea, or walked in the recesses of the deep? Have the gates of death been revealed to you, or have you seen the gates of deep darkness? Have you comprehended the expanse of the earth? Declare, if you know all this."
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Sometimes His spirit speaks to my thirsty soul. It is enough...for now.
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