Tag Archives: Stephen Crane

Wednesday’s Woman: Cora! A Woman of Ability

Posted on March 19, 2013 by gabrielswharf

March is National Women’s History Month, with this year’s emphasis on celebrating women in science and technology. I’d like to draw attention to a very controversial and colorful woman: the nation’s first war correspondent: Cora Crane, a true rebel of … Continue reading →

What does the hawk see?

Posted on March 22, 2012 by gabrielswharf

Poetry is almost always spoken of or presented as elitist. Prose has more rope and loopholes, but Poetry must be a well-designed mousetrap. There are lofty discussions of ‘Where does the poem come from?’ A typical answer might be that … Continue reading →

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The things that scare us

Posted on February 11, 2012 by gabrielswharf

Readers remember those moments in their reading adventures when they discovered foreshadowing and understood it in perhaps, The Scarlet Letter, or understood symbolism in, perhaps, Stephen Crane’s “The Open Boat,” or felt that they were in on the satire of … Continue reading →