Dickinson’s excitement about fall colors can be seen in her stepping out of her comfort zone and putting “a trinket on.”
Monthly Archives: October 2022
Irresponsible Coal Companies
Coal miner owners have been leaving behind messes for others to clean up. Dickens reports something similar in “Hard Times.”
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How Media Would Spin Macbeth
In an effort to be fair to both sides, sometimes the media doesn’t call out falsehoods. Satirist Petri imagines a newspaper telling the story of the Macbeths.
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Trumpists Resemble Dracula’s Renfield
A “New York Magazine” columnist has compared Trumpists and Trump enablers to Renfield in “Dracula.” The comparison is an apt one.
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Trump’s Satanic Power Grab
Monday One of the paradoxes of today’s GOP is that, at the same time they complain that Democrats represent a threat to their freedom, they want to hand over all power to their authoritarian cult leader. Donald Trump, it so happens, is not interested in anyone’s freedom but his own. This is one of the […]
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Circling around God, the Primordial Tower
Rilke’s short but powerful “I live my life in widening circles” expands mind and spirit.
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the passing of all shining things
e.e. cummings has a dialogue with Shelley’s “Ode to the West Wind” in his own poem about autumn. I include Frost and Oliver in the reflection as well.
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Coming Out, Better than Remaining Silent
Audre Lorde has a powerful poem for those LGBTQ folk wrestling with whether or not to come out.
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The Ten Best Brit Poems of 1800s
My Victorianist son shares his top ten 19th century British poems.
