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#ChristmasGift #FineArt #TheHuntingOfTheSnark #surrealism #LewisCarroll #BlueskyArt Lewis Carroll's "The Hunting of the Snark" illustrated by Mahendra Singh as a #surrealist #graphicnovel is a beautiful #PuzzleBook for #ArtLovers, as it contains many #allusions to well known #paintings and prints.

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Goodnight, Void #Allusions

https://www.mcraewrites.com/goodnight-void-allusions/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=jetpack_social

I call this one “song of experience”.

you claim that i'm better than you, when in reality
i’m nothing but a practiced poor player 
who knows how to call fire and gold from nothing but words
i stand before you and strut and fret my hour upon the stage
in much the same way i did since i was a child -
and when i became a teenager i found the voice of a haunted pipe organ
that only increased in volume and resonance with time and skill
and when i was 24 i unsexed myself and learned to roar
got some damned spots on my hands 
(i roar about them, too)
i learned the difference between hard and soft, between open palms 
and hidden knives
and built a cathedral for my pipe organ voice 
burnt out like a caravan or a candle a time or nineteen
so don’t ever think you’re better than me
learn to screw your courage to the sticking place
dust off the keys, call the fire
and sing
 07/28/2025

-Allēna

#allusions #discipline #lgbtqia #nonbinary #passion #poetry #practice #queer #queerpoet #ritual #shakespeare #thescottishplay #transgender #transmasc #transmascpoet #transmasculine

Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of Allusions by Elizabeth Webber & Mike Feinsilber, 1999

A guide to references commonly used in speech and writing. Explains more than 900 allusions. Entries include examples from todays leading media. A must for serious readers, language lovers, and ESL students.

@bookstodon
#books
#reference
#dictionary
#allusions
#writing

The Oxford Dictionary of Allusions by Andrew Delahunty & Sheila Dignen & Penny Stock, 2001

Allusions give us a marvelous literary shorthand, drawing on our collective knowledge of literature, mythology, and the Bible to help us describe people, places, feelings, and events.

@bookstodon
#books
#nonfiction
#reference
#mythology
#dictionary
#allusions

A miser is a Scrooge, a strong man is a Samson or a Hercules, a beautiful woman is a Venus or a modern-day Helen of Troy. We can suffer like Sisyphus or linger like the smile of the Cheshire Cat.
Ranging from classical mythology to modern movies and TV shows, this new reference work explains the meanings of the allusions in use in modern English, from Abaddon to Zorro, Tartarus to Tarzan, and Rubens to Rambo. Based on an extensive reading program that has identified the most commonly used allusions, this fascinating volume includes numerous quotations to illustrate usage, from a range of authors and sources, from Thomas Hardy and Charles Dickens to Bridget Jones's Diary. Moreover, the dictionary is thematically structured, so that readers not only can look up Medea to find out who she was and how her name is used as an allusion, but also can look up the theme of "Revenge" and find, alongside Medea, entries for other figures used to allude to revenge, such as The Furies or The Count of Monte Cristo.
From School Library Journal
Adult/High School-This volume arranges literary, mythological, biblical, and popular references by theme. A line or two introduces each subject noting common associations, and/or scope of the entries that follow. "Nonconformity" includes brief entries on Bohemia, Holden Caulfield, James Dean, Galileo, and other characters and individuals. Many of these entries are accompanied by an excerpt illustrating its use in a work of literature.

A girl coming into shamanic powers, a vengeful god, and an impending war.
#newpurchase #midureads #allusions #thepoppywar #rfkuang #historicalfantasy #bookstagram

#Allusions can be tricky - especially when students don't know anything...

"Recognizing Allusions" - https://bluecerealeducation.com/blog/recognizing-allusions/

#ELA #LiteraryDevices #education #teacher #edutooter

#Allusions are one of the trickiest #LiteraryDevices to teach young people, largely because allusions by their very nature expect the reader to already understand people and events generally considered to be “common knowledge.”

You see the problem.

https://bluecerealeducation.com/blog/recognizing-allusions

#ELA #teachers #education #edutooter

Recognizing Allusions - https://bluecerealeducation.com/blog/recognizing-allusions
#ELA #allusions #teachers #edutooter @edutooters

@MatthiasGrunewald --- https://zirk.us/@snarkology/109574002356383146 is about one of several #PictorialReferences (from an illustration to #LewisCarroll's "#TheHuntingOftheSnark") by #HenryHoliday to #MatthiasGrünewald's paintings (https://snrk.de/how-gustave-dore-might-have-played-with-pareidolia/#wildmen) in the #MuseéUnterlinden in #Colmar, France.

#IsenheimAltarPiece
#TemptationOfStAnthony #BookIllustration #Allusions #PictorialReferences #PictorialAllusions

This comparison shows one of several pictorial references (from an illustration to Lewis Carroll's "The Hunting of the Snark") by Henry Holiday to Matthias Grünewald's paintings (https://snrk.de/how-gustave-dore-might-have-played-with-pareidolia/#wildmen).

The illustration in the left side depicts the Beaver and the Butcher stuck in a narrow valley with lots of naughty monsters around. The man in the background is the Bellman.

The painting on the right side is a rendering of Matthias Grünewald's painting "The Temptation of St. Anthony". The painting belongs to the Isenheim Altarpiece in Colmar, France. I marked three shapes to which Henry Holiday references pictorially in his illustration to "The Hunting of the Snark.

This is about one of several #PictorialReferences (from an illustration to #LewisCarroll's "#TheHuntingOftheSnark") by #HenryHoliday to #MatthiasGrünewald's paintings (https://snrk.de/how-gustave-dore-might-have-played-with-pareidolia/#wildmen) in the #MuseéUnterlinden in #Colmar, France.

#IsenheimAltarPiece
#TemptationOfStAnthony #BookIllustration #Allusions #PictorialReferences #PictorialAllusions

#People often #Say #Believe in #Yourself -

It's kinda an #Odd thing to say: We are not our #Self to begin with. We are a #Being that #Projects a #Self -

Believe in your #Soul #Live from your soul - Allow your #Spirit to become #Conscious #SpiritualConsciousness

If you lack #Discernment you'll get lost in the #Illusions & #Allusions of your #Projections of self.

#Humanity is being lead astray by many who are lost in theirselves & are #Ruled by their ego and its #Opinions & #Judgments

@GambaJo -- Ich glaube, dass Beratung für Yoda Routine ist. In dem Geschäft ist er ja mindestens seit dem Jahr 1876.

※ https://snrk.de/knight-letter-links/kl-spring2017/
※ https://archive.org/details/huntingofsnarkag00carrrich/page/31/mode/2up

#TheHuntingOfTheSnark #HenryHoliday #LewisCarroll #bookillustration #Allusions #StarWars #Yoda #ThisIsNotYoda

This is one of several references (in an illustration to #LewisCarroll's "#TheHuntingOftheSnark") by #HenryHoliday to #MatthiasGrünewald's paintings (https://snrk.de/how-gustave-dore-might-have-played-with-pareidolia/#wildmen).

I found the hidden "head" (https://mastodon.art/@snark/109313077135427231) when working on this comparison.

#MatthiasGrünewald #IsenheimAltarPiece #TemptationOfStAnthony #bookillustration #Allusions #PictorialReferences

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Article "Holiday’s References" (https://snrk.de/page_holidays-references/) in the #KnightLetter (https://snrk.de/knight-letter-links/), № 106 (https://archive.org/details/knightletterno106306lewi/page/12/mode/2up), Spring 2021, p. 12~13, #LCSNA (https://www.lewiscarroll.org/).

The article is about #PictorialReferences in illustrations by #HenryHoliday (to "LewisCarroll's "The Hunting of the Snark") to works by #MatthiasGrünewald, J.E. #Millais and #JohnMartin

#TheHuntingOfTheSnark #Allusions #MatthiasGruenewald

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This is one of several references (in an illustration to Lewis Carroll's "The Hunting of the Snark") by Henry Holiday to Matthias Grünewald's paintings (https://snrk.de/wimmelbild/#MatthiasGruenewald).

#TheHuntingOfTheSnark #HenryHoliday #LewisCarroll #bookillustration #Allusions #PictorialReferences #MatthiasGruenewald #IsenheimAltarPiece

In one of Henry Holiday's illustrations to Lewis Carroll's "The Hunting of the Snark" (1876), Louise Schweitzer ("One Wild Flower", 2012, page 223) found this allusion to John Everett Millais' "Boyhood of Raleigh" (https://snrk.de/holidays-butcher-and-millais-raleigh/).

#TheHuntingOfTheSnark #HenryHoliday #LewisCarroll #bookillustration #Allusions #Pastiche #Millais #PreRaphaelite #JohnEverettMillais #Raleigh #WalterRaleigh

Incidental or intentional? Whatever, the #copyright for Henry Holiday's depiction of the Baker's uncle (in Lewis Carroll's "The Hunting of the Snark") has expired.

※ https://snrk.de/knight-letter-links/kl-spring2017/
※ https://archive.org/details/huntingofsnarkag00carrrich/page/31/mode/2up

#TheHuntingOfTheSnark #HenryHoliday #LewisCarroll #bookillustration #allusions #StarWars #Yoda #ThisIsNotYoda #councelling #consulting #coaching

In Lewis Carroll's "The Hunting of the Snark", the textual puns are accompanied by Henry Holiday's pictorial puns.

I think that Eliots comment on borrowing by poets applies not only to writers, but to all art thieves: https://snrk.de/on-borrowing/.

#TheHuntingOfTheSnark #HenryHoliday #MarcusGheeraerts #MarcusGheeraertsTheYounger #LewisCarroll #bookillustration #Victorian #Allusions #Pastiche

#allusions

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