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The Dulcimer and Musicality, Kublah Kahn
The Kublah Kahn PCR Musicality, Verse rhythm and The Dulcimer Dear Listeners, The Dulcimer is a fascinating musical instrument, with three strings to its body and forms part of the image the poet uses in the last Stanza of the Abyssinian maid, playing on her Dulcimer. The image forms part of the poets dream, to [...]
Alice Day July 09 in Oxford and Author Lewis Carroll
Alice Day July 09 in Oxford and author Lewis Caroll Did you know that there is a celebration known as ‘Alice Day’ that takes place in Oxford every year on, July 09. It features fictional characters from the book including the Mad Hatter and his Tea Party, the Red Queens croquet game, along side the [...]
Lewis Caroll, Lexicon Language & Nonce Verse
PCR Lewis Carroll, Lexicon and Nonse Verse The Jabberwocky poem in the chapter, ‘Looking Glass House’ is known is a poem of Nonce verse.The nonce words in the poem are part of Lewis Carolls invention and what he coined as Lexicon: a language without direct or obvious meaning. Nonce words have a whimsical nonsensical quality, [...]
Katie and Verse
PCR Katie & Verse Dear Listeners, The 6th chapter in the Katie series the ‘Witch Who Lost her spells’ is one that shows how important it is for Katie not to loose her spell book, from which she learns the magic art of how to become a witch at school and home. The spell book [...]
Fairytales & Rules of Three
Fairytales and Rules of Three- Fairytale Story-link: Goldilocks, J& B, Cinderella Three fairytales, which have fairytales rules character’s places, phrases that occur in ‘threes’ of two quite different fairytale authors; Goldilock & the three bears and Jack & The Beanstalk by Andrew Lang and Cinderella by Charles Perrault. To begin Goldilocks and the three bears, [...]