BW47: F is for .....

 

Happy Sunday! Can you believe there are 6 1/2 weeks left in the year? I can't. Time to start brainstorming for next year.    I've reached F in A.J. Jacob's The Know it All in which he's reading through the entire Encyclopedia Britannica in his quest to become the smartest person in the world. The first entry is Fables, which coincidentally, coincides with the letter of the week and the first thing that popped up in literary terms when I searched the internet.  Synchronicity! Maybe.   

Big F, little F. What begins with F.  Why, Fables, as well as flashbacks, fantasy, foils, free verse, folklore and fairy tales, and feminine rhyme.  Robert Frost is a favorite of mine. I'd also like to dip my toes into stories by Faulkner, Fitzgerald, Flaubert, and Fleming, and well as French, Foyle, and Fyodor to name a few.  

The Flower Boat 

by 

Robert Frost

The fisherman's swapping a yarn for a yarn

Under the hand of the village barber,

And her in the angle of house and barn

His deep-sea dory has found a harbor.

At anchor she rides the sunny sod

As full to the gunnel of flowers growing

As ever she turned her home with cod

From George's bank when winds were blowing.

And I judge from that elysian freight

That all they ask is rougher weather,

And dory and master will sail by fate

To seek the Happy Isles together.

Happy Reading!