Tag Archives: In Memoriam

Empire of Light, Filled with Poetry

The film “Empire of Light” is magical in part because of all the poetry recited.

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Ring Out the Old, Ring in the New

“Ring Out Wild Bells” is as strong a poetic affirmation of hope as is to be found anywhere.

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Let Love Clasp Grief Lest Both Be Drown’d

When death strikes, poetry is there to sustain us.

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My Son’s Death and Two Tree Poems

Today, the anniversary of my son’s death and also Arbor Day, I link the two days with two tree poems.

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Ring Out the Old, Ring in the New

Tennyson and Longfellow have poems about bells ringing out an age of sin and suffering and ringing in new hope. Let them ring.

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Remembering My Son 20 Years Later

Remembering my oldest son, who died 20 years ago, I turn to Shelley’s elegy for Keats.

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Let Us Sail into the Promise of the Day

E. A. Robinson’s “Children of the Night” finds spiritual hope in a dark world.

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The Declining English Major

An English prof, sensing obsolescence, turns to “In Memoriam” (also Fowles, Wordsworth & Arnold).

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Can Poetry Stop This Man?

Poetry may not have been able to stop Donald Trump, but it has its ways of mounting resistance. Poems by Tennyson, Auden, and Yeats explain how.

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