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The poem describes the Day of Judgment, on which a vengeful God judges and sentences all men, going into detail as to the various categories of people who think themselves excusable who will nonetheless end up in Hell. The poem was so popular that the early editions were thumbed to shreds. Only one fragmentary copy of the first edition is known to exist, and second editions are exceptionally rare.[2]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Day_of_Doom
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Feeling sometime that I don't have much mastery of the subjects I write about, I thought to increase my lore of poetry by going to google and wiki and finding who were the earliest American and British poets century by century...American poets begin with the colonization (Native American poets are another subject, I realize in writing this out!), and I found first on the list Michael Wigglesworth...he was a Puritan with the Puritan colonists, and he wrote a poem, The Day of Doom, the poem the wiki quote above is about...
I've wanted to do a post up about this: looking for old poets and poetry lore...I've come to the thought that a poet should have a good store of such lore, and use it when they write, that their poems shouldn't stand out, and alone, and separate, from poetry that went before...I'm not articulating this well...
anyway, I did a youtube search of Day of Doom, which is grim...but on a lighter note happened on John Oliver's take...
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"Let's turn to some lighter news, the end of the world..."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UC_gXD5OE88
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Is it the end of the National Geographic Society today?...I had just read last night before leaving off for dreamland, the story of the new discovery in South Africa...paleoanthropologists look to have found a graveyard over a million years old...
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From the moment in 2013 when paleoanthropologist Lee Berger posted a plea on Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn for “tiny and small, specialised cavers and spelunkers with excellent archaeological, palaeontological and excavation skills,” some experts began grumbling that the excavation of a mysterious hominin in the Rising Star Cave in South Africa was more of a media circus than a serious scientific expedition.
New human species discovered
http://news.sciencemag.org/archaeology/2015/09/new-human-species-discovered
and Nat Geo has the story, and Lee Berger is sponsored by them...
What a fine story to find late last night after my midnight youtube movie watch, Sinbad and The Eye of the Tiger...(I'm a Jane Seymour fan...:)...
and then, first thing this morning when I google searched news on my iphone, I find that Nat Geo is no longer to be a non profit, but rather a for profit, as it has been taken over, like 73% worth, by Fox!
hmmph...end of the world indeed...if there's a tomorrowmorrow, I'll continue with Sinbad and The Eye of The Tiger...
DavidDavid
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