230407 What I learned in my studies this morning 3

Legend has it that
Nobody knew and nobody knows
How the Pobble was robbed.

Thoughts:

I love doing lessons with my kids.  Yesterday, we spent 30-45 minutes examining the  connections between the lyrics of The Moss by Cosmo Sheldrake and the poems of Edward Lear.

Here's the lesson I laid out for my kids:

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First, read the lyrics to The Moss (text, video) by Cosmo Sheldrake. (Yes, the one we listen to in the car sometimes.)

Cosmo based much of this song's lyrics on references to the poetry of Edward Lear. Lear wrote nonsense poems — poems which often use made up words and are meant to be enjoyed as much for the sounds they employ as the meaning (or lack of meaning) they portray. The books of Dr. Seuss are modern examples of nonsense poetry.

You may have heard of Lear's most famous poem, The Owl and the Pussycat (text, video). While not mentioned by Sheldrake, The Owl and the Pussycat introduces many of the themes found in the poems he does reference such as journeys by sea, the Bong Tree, the nonsense word runcible, and more. Many characters appear in more than one poem (e.g. the Jumblies are in The Dong with the Luminous Nose and the Dong, the Pobble, and the Jumblies all show up in The Quangle Wangle's Hat.)

Now let's look at the poems he mentions, in the order given.
* Jabberwocky is a nonsense poem by Lewis Carroll rather than Edward Lear and is taken from his book Through the Looking-Glass, the sequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.

Other things mentioned in the song:
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It was SO MUCH FUN. We sang. We laughed.  We cried.  It was much better than Cats.

Tomorrow's lesson: understanding Ask Culture vs Guess Culture.

Today's Meditation:


Today's Meditation II:


Today's Meditation III:

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