Monthly Archives: July 2022

The World Will End in Fire AND Ice

By Robin Bates | Published: July 20, 2022

With extreme climate, the world in likely to end (to cite Robert Frost) in fire AND ice.

By Robin Bates | Published: July 19, 2022

In “Sons and Lovers,” there are bedside scenes that very much resemble our last days with my mother

By Robin Bates | Published: July 18, 2022

When we lose someone we love, we may have feelings that don’t appear laudable. Malraux’s “Man’s Fate” helps us understand them.

By Robin Bates | Published: July 17, 2022

“Metamorphosis” captures conflicted feelings about a death in the family.

By Robin Bates | Published: July 16, 2022

Tennyson’s “Crossing the Bar” captures my emotions following my mother’s passing.

By Robin Bates | Published: July 14, 2022

As my mother lies dying, Dickinson’s “Because I could not stop for death” speaks to me.

By Robin Bates | Published: July 13, 2022

Silence in the classroom can feel unbearable. Like Camelot silence in the face of the Green Knight.

By Robin Bates | Published: July 12, 2022

If anticipation of a death in the near future, I turn to Roy’s “God of Small Things” for guidance.

By Robin Bates | Published: July 11, 2022

Cynicism marks many of those who have sold their souls to Trump, making “Dorian Gray” a good lens through which to view them.