One of my students, suffering from cancer, has an exciting interpretation of Euripides’ “The Bacchae.”
Monthly Archives: September 2013
A Cancer Patient Reads “The Bacchae”
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Cherish the Angel at Your Door
William Blake’s “Holy Thursday” poems challenges those members of Congress voting to cut food stamps.
Posted in Uncategorized Tagged "Holy Thursday", budget cuts, food stamps, politics, Songs of Innocence and Experience, William Blake Comments closed
Poems on Mayweather, Manziel, Rivera
“The Daily Sports Poem” blog has poems that perfectly capture a wide range of sporting events.
Posted in Uncategorized Tagged Baseball, boxing, Floyd Mayweather, Football, Humor, Johnny Manziel, Mariano Rivera, Sports Comments closed
The Little Texas Senator that Could
What should we make of Ted Cruz’s use, in his quasi filibuster, of “Green Eggs and Ham” and “The Little Engine that Could”?
Posted in Uncategorized Tagged Don Quixote, Dr. Seuss, Green Eggs and Ham, Little Engine that Could, Miguel de Cervantes, politics, Ted Cruz, Wally Piper Comments closed
My Father’s Love Song to Phoebe
For my mother’s birthday, I post a love poem written to her by my late father 67 years ago.
Kid Fight in Congress
At times, Congress looks like two kids squabbling in “Tom Sawyer”–only in this case, the stakes are much higher and one side refuses to act like an adult.
Posted in Uncategorized Tagged budget fight, Congress, continuing resolution, debt ceiling, Mark Twain, Obamacare, politics, Tom Sawyer Comments closed
GOP vs. Women = Pentheus vs. Bacchae
Euripides helps understand the right wing’s attack on women’s reproductive rights.
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Depressing News? Read Gulliver
If you ever feel that humans are nothing more than Yahoos, Swift urges us to remember that there are good Samaritans amongst us.
Posted in Uncategorized Tagged cynicism, Good Samaritan, Gulliver's Travels, houyhnhnms, Jonathan Swift Comments closed
God Dwells in Mercy, Pity, Peace, Love
Pope Francis ! might well embrace the vision of love found in Blake’s “Divine Image.”
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