Thursday, September 25, 2014

This week's Carnival of Homeschooling is up - The "Ozymandias" edition

C T is hosting this week's Carnival of Homeschooling at Petticoat Government.

She starts the carnival with

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Welcome to the 456th Carnival of Homeschooling! This carnival's theme is "Ozymandias."


Doesn't it just make you happy to say the name "Ozymandias"? My voice becomes sonorous and commanding, and I envision stark desert scenes, which I love, having mostly grown up in the American Southwest.

Written in the early 1800s, the sonnet "Ozymandias" by Percy Bysshe Shelley deals with many themes in its short 14 lines. Among them are travel and history, the effects of time and the natural world, artistic creation, hubris, recording one's deeds, and the collapse of human power.
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Enjoy!

Carnival of Homeschooling

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