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.

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Learning about Death through Lit

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

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Death Exposes Our Conflicted Humanity

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.

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Mixed Feelings about a Death

By Robin Bates | Published: July 17, 2022

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

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Twilight, Evening Bell, After That the Dark

By Robin Bates | Published: July 16, 2022

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

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The Final Carriage Ride

By Robin Bates | Published: July 14, 2022

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

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Sir Gawain and Classroom Silences

By Robin Bates | Published: July 13, 2022

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

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In the Face of Death, the Small Things

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.

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GOP Operatives as Dorian Gray

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.

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