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Category: Rene Magritte

  • The things we do for love

    By Tammy Ho and Jeff Zroback “Not To Be Reproduced (Portrait of Edward James)” (1937/) by Rene Magritte  I will do as you ask even though I know that as the Turkish barber is shaving my sideburns with a razor, it…

  • Why is it good to just stand and stare sometimes?

     Rene Magritte’s “The False Mirror” William Henry Davies in his poem “Leisure” answers: Leisureby W.H. Davies WHAT is this life if, full of careWe have no time to stand and stare.No time to stand beneath the boughsAnd stare as long…

  • How must one tell the truth?

    “The Pleasant truth” (1966) by rene MAGRITTE Emily Dickinson answers: Tell all the Truth but tell it slant— Success in Circuit lies Too bright for our infirm Delight The Truth’s superb surprise As Lightening to the Children eased With explanation kind The…

  • What is true about love?

    “Lovers” by Rene Magritte In Jonathan Ames’s Bored to Death (HBO), the character George, played brilliantly by Ted Danson (have you watched Cheers?), answers (but not indisputably): I am in your movie. You are in mine. Two different films, really.…

  • "a virgin with no legs to leave me, no arms to hold me, no head to talk to me"

    1934 Magritte Le Viol 72×54 cm . The following is Susan Gubar’s interpretation of Magritte’s painting (above) in her article “Representing Pornography: Feminism, Criticism, and Depictions of Female Violation” (1987). Do you have a different take on the image? .…

  • Did Emily Dickinson mean ‘need not’?

    I know parallel semantic and syntactic structure is a key feature in Emily Dickinson’s poetry. But reading the poem below, I was just thinking that ‘need not’1 might make more sense than ‘cannot’ in the first stanza. What do you think?  The…