Do tour guides ever dream of doling out to their chargers what the porters in “Heart of Darkness” do with one of the visiting English?
Monthly Archives: June 2015
Pound’s Description of a Long Marriage
With every passing year of my marriage, which hits 42 years today, my appreciation for Ezra Pound’s “River-Merchant’s Wife” grows.
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Opening of Eyes Long Closed
David Whyte assures us that God is here now, not in some indefinite future. We have but to open our eyes.
Satan: Freedom Fighter Turned Dictator
“Paradise Lost” can function as a lesson in how freedom fighters become dictators. It also shows what we must do to resist this tendency.
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Swimming with the Water Babies
Swimming with my granddaughters put me in mind of Charles Kingsley’s “Water Babies.” Kingsley helped us enter into the rich imaginative lives of children.
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Donne and Climate Change Denial
Somewhat unexpectedly, John Donne’s “Valediction Forbidding Mourning” gives insight into climate change denial.
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Poetry Comforts the Mentally Disabled
This “New York Times” article describes how poetry came to the aid of a man with schizoaffective disorder. It also aided his therapist.
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