| || stall, style, normal, throng, all ears.
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The opening poem contains all the words (or variations of them) from today's Jumble.
Comments are welcomed!
Do not explicitly reveal any of the actual answer words until after closing time, but embedding them surreptitiously in comment sentences is encouraged.
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The Roman Comitium was crowded on that fateful day.
The ides of March had past, and Caesar past away.
The throng would hear orations from the Rostrum high
Of why the Senate voted that Caesar had to die.
Brutus spoke with formal style of politic platitudes.
He spoke of Caesar's ego, and his imperial attitudes.
He stalled the people's passion to riot at Caesar's fall.
Then he left the Rostrum, for Anthony's rally call.
Anthony spoke to the crowd in normal, un-fancy speech.
"All present, lend to me your ears," he did beseech.
He roused them like a preacher, led them to a frenzy!
With hidden eloquence showed what Brutus did from envy!
I enjoy trying to figure out if there was anything in the jumble that gave you the initial idea for your poem, Owen. Today I think it was the solution word that led straight to Antony's famous line. Maybe?
The jumble clues all popped right out to me, and the short solution came easily too. That idiom always makes a funny mental picture for me; imagine what such a person would actually look like. If you think about it literally, that person could be Antony!
Enjoyed your poem, Owen, and your comments, Sandyanon. After that tough crossword today, this easy Jumble was a delight. Got all four words with no problem and the solution was an easy gift. Yes, it is funny to try to imagine that. I liked the cartoon with the little plant next to that huge television. Clearly the elderly gentleman should be seated closer to the set until he gets his hearing aids. Have a good weekend, everybody.
Today's poem brings back some personal memories. From Oregon to Virginia I had the privilege of playing both Anthony and Brutus in ol' Will's versions of these Roman events.
Cassius was right. How very different history would have been if Brutus had not allowed Anthony to speak--and especially not to have the final word!
Some decades later I was given the challenge of playing another Shakespearean character, challenging not only in the emotional and physical range of the role but in his "exposure." I mean the ancient Brittanic king who in his madness strips off his regal garments on the heath.
By the time I came to the role I was fortunate to have observed several other raw Lears before me--a great help for me in modeling my interpretation.
~ OMK
You are correct about the seed, Sandy. But also throng.
"Why is this Forum crowded? What means this stir in Rome?
Under a spreading chestnut tree, there is no place like home!"
I always thought that was from the opening scene of Julius Caesar, but looking it up just now. I find the Overworked Elocutionist stole it from “The Fate of Virginia” by T.B. Macaulay, about a slave market in Rome.
My seed is usually seeing two or more words with some link between them, tho on occasion a single word will do.
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