To welcome in the spring, here’s a D. H. Lawrence poem, brought to you by the color green.
Monthly Archives: March 2021
Spring, a Conflagration of Green Fires
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Life and Death Make a Goodly Lent
Christina Rossetti’s poem “Lent” is powerful in its simplicity.
The Pit, the Pendulum, and Covid Relief
If Covid has offered a choice between the pit and the pendulum, then the vaccines and the Covid relief bill have been the liberating French army.
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Austen’s Mixed Feelings about Gothics
An exploration of Jane Austen’s mixed feelings about the gothic–and about lightweight lit.
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A Fiddler for St. Patrick’s Day
A jolly Yeats poem for St. Patrick’s Day.
Song of Hope: The Night Cloud Is Hueing
With the passage of the Covid relief bill and increased vaccinations, Hardy’s “Song for Hope” seems appropriate.
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Stronger in the Broken Places
Joe Biden picked the perfect Hemingway quote for his Covid address to the nation.
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Come Down, O Christ, and Reach Thy Hand
In Wilde’s poem “E Tenebris,” the speaker feels unable to reach up to God.
WandaVision and Grendel’s Mother
In which I compare Wanda from WandaVision with Grendel’s Mother. Who knew?
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