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“Scarlet Begonias”, “Ride a Cock Horse to Banbury Cross”, and “My Sweet Gypsy Rose”: The Grateful Dead, a nursery rhyme, and Tony Orlando & Dawn. #111Words #TheGratefulDead #ScarletBegonias #RideACockHorseToBanburyCross #MySweetGypsyRose #TonyOrlandoAndDawn #Music #Lyrics #Allusions https://111-words.ghost.io/scarlet-begonias-ride-a-cock-horse-to-banbury-cross-and-my-sweet-gypsy-rose-the-grateful-dead-a-nursery-rhyme-and-tony-orlando-dawn/

“Scarlet Begonias”, “Ride a Cock Horse to Banbury Cross”, and “My Sweet Gypsy Rose”: The Grateful Dead, a nursery rhyme, and Tony Orlando & Dawn

The second stanza of the Grateful Dead song "Scarlet Begonias" ("From the Mars Hotel", 1974, lyrics by Robert Hunter, music by Jerry Garcia) describes a woman with "rings on her fingers and bells on her shoes." This echoes the nursery rhyme "Ride a Cock Horse to Banbury Cross", whose "fine

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The Hunting of the Snark Dec 1

#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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McRae Aug 2, 2025

Goodnight, Void #Allusions

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

Goodnight, Void #Allusions

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Ashley Halliwell Jul 29, 2025

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

earthling Nov 28, 2024

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.

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#reference
#dictionary
#allusions
#writing

earthling Aug 16, 2024

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.

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#nonfiction
#reference
#mythology
#dictionary
#allusions

Midu Hadi Jan 11, 2024

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

Blue Cereal Education Jul 6, 2023

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

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

#ELA #LiteraryDevices #education #teacher #edutooter

Recognizing Allusions – Blue Cereal Education

Blue Cereal Education May 8, 2023

#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