Wordsworth’s “We Are Seven” captured my son’s sense of connection with his dead brother.
Monthly Archives: April 2014
I Am the Stem that Fed the Fruit
Judith Wright’s “Woman to Child” captures the primal bond that begins early and never ends.
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The Work Ethic of Poor People
The American work ethic is alive at all levels of society, including in the drug trade.
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Tormented, Torn & Twisted with Doubt
In Levertov’s poem on St. Thomas, she links his doubts with that of the father of the demon-possessed son who comes to Jesus.
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NBA Playoffs: Daphne Chases Apollo
Like the topsy-turvy forest in “Midsummer Night’s Dream,” the NBA playoffs are witnessing strange reversals.
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Women Making Sense of Their Lives
The female Bildungsroman arose to help women make sense of their lives in the feminist era.
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Websites for Literature Lovers
I’m currently inundated with students essays and so am not posting an essay today, referring you instead to Flavor Wire’s “25 Best Websites for Literature Lovers.” (Thanks to Rachel Kranz for alerting me to it.) Some of these websites I visit regularly (like the New Yorker’s “Page Turner”) and some I’m learning about for the […]
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Mother Goose’s Ecological Warnings
Scott Bates’ variation of familiar Mother Goose rhymes warn us of environmental devastation.
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