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Cats And Dogs And Humans, Poem 11/23/2015, Charles Kay Smith
Cats And Dogs And Humans, Poem 11/23/2015, Charles Kay Smith
Charles Kay Smith
Thoughts on science, inequality and the economy
Happy Halloween Song For My Grandchildren, Charles Kay Smith
Happy Halloween Song For My Grandchildren, Charles Kay Smith
Charles Kay Smith
No abstract provided.
Happy Halloween Poem For My Grandchildren, Charles Kay Smith
Happy Halloween Poem For My Grandchildren, Charles Kay Smith
Charles Kay Smith
Halloween poem written for children about 10 years old. This poem was set to a simple tune, but music does not open on SelectedWorks, so this is just the verse without the music.
Suncircles: A Prose/Poem 12/18/2014, Charles Kay Smith
Suncircles: A Prose/Poem 12/18/2014, Charles Kay Smith
Charles Kay Smith
A current project is writing a book of poetry. The different kind of poetry I’m trying to write melds science, humanities, and aesthetic aims of clarity and a polished plain style with social consciousness. I’m uploading one of the poems in the collection as an example of the kind of poetry I’m trying to compose.
Frederick Ii: Holy Roman Emperor Extraordinaire, Prose/Poem 7/23/2014, Charles Kay Smith
Frederick Ii: Holy Roman Emperor Extraordinaire, Prose/Poem 7/23/2014, Charles Kay Smith
Charles Kay Smith
Frederick avoided fighting the 6th Crusade by negotiating a peaceful sharing of Jerusalem by people of all faiths. No doubt it helped that he spoke Arabic and personally engaged in five months of negotiations rather than combat.
Blowin’ Against The Wind, Prose/Poem 7/17/2014, Charles Kay Smith
Blowin’ Against The Wind, Prose/Poem 7/17/2014, Charles Kay Smith
Charles Kay Smith
Thoughts on Science, Contemporary Poetry and Human Nature.
To My Children, A Poem 7/10/2014, Charles Kay Smith
To My Children, A Poem 7/10/2014, Charles Kay Smith
Charles Kay Smith
My children tend to take death more seriously than I do. This poem gently points them in an alternative direction.
Soliciting The Universe, A Prose/Poem 4/1/2014, Charles Kay Smith
Soliciting The Universe, A Prose/Poem 4/1/2014, Charles Kay Smith
Charles Kay Smith
Why it may not be wise to radio our presence into outer space, but why humans are compelled by their neotenic proclivities to be curious and to solicit attention.
Elegy In An American Graveyard, Prose/Poem 3/27/2014, Charles Kay Smith
Elegy In An American Graveyard, Prose/Poem 3/27/2014, Charles Kay Smith
Charles Kay Smith
An update of Thomas Grey's majestic Elegy In A Country Churchyard. Our Economy is very different and so must be our politics.
Born In 1930, Prose/Poem 3/7/2014, Charles Kay Smith
Born In 1930, Prose/Poem 3/7/2014, Charles Kay Smith
Charles Kay Smith
A homage to Presidrnt Franklin D. Roosevelt. In his America, political democracy was extended toward economic democracy. His policies began to be reversed in the 1980s. We are living in the desert of inequality created by that reversal.
To Mr. Death, Prose/Poem 2/21/2014, Charles Kay Smith
To Mr. Death, Prose/Poem 2/21/2014, Charles Kay Smith
Charles Kay Smith
Another experimantal poem. I was attempting to achieve maximum compression.
Hadrian's Beard, A Poem 2/19/2014, Charles Kay Smith
Hadrian's Beard, A Poem 2/19/2014, Charles Kay Smith
Charles Kay Smith
No abstract provided.
Literary Analysis Of The Special Form Of Satire Swift Invented For A Modest Proposal, Charles Kay Smith
Literary Analysis Of The Special Form Of Satire Swift Invented For A Modest Proposal, Charles Kay Smith
Charles Kay Smith
Some of Swift's more conventional classical figures of speech have already been noted, though more or less in isolation to one another as well as to larger designs and aesthetic aims. Swift's genius in A Modest Proposal is to create a speaker whose monologue keeps two distinct styles operational at all times. The style of which the speaker is aware is constantly opposed by covert and innovative verbal and grammatical techniques which the proposer sets in motion but of which he remains unaware, which slowly but surely turns a reader's sympathies against him and against those who share his callous …