Monthly Archives: October 2013

As Kingfishers Catch Fire

By Robin Bates | Published: October 13, 2013

Gerard Manley Hopkins tells us how to access the god within ourselves.

By Robin Bates | Published: October 12, 2013

How Tony Romo is like Icarus.

By Robin Bates | Published: October 11, 2013

Haikus on shutting the government and breaching the debt ceiling.

By Robin Bates | Published: October 10, 2013

“A plague on both your houses” doesn’t work for Mercutio or for citizens today.

By Robin Bates | Published: October 9, 2013

Shakespeare’s “As You Like It” offers a wish fulfillment that we can apply to the government shutdown.

By Robin Bates | Published: October 8, 2013

The GOP hostage takers resemble the Light Brigade, as well as the kidnappers in “Ransom of Red Chief,” “Fargo,” and “Ruthless People.”

By Robin Bates | Published: October 7, 2013

The worst poem ever published may be William McGonagall’s “The Tay Bridge Disaster.”

By Robin Bates | Published: October 6, 2013

Shelley’s elegy to Keats, “Adonais,” gives us a rich vision of our relationship with death.

By Robin Bates | Published: October 5, 2013

Something feels wrong about no Yankee team in the postseason. Time to reminisce with a Marianne Moore poem.