Trump’s torrent of lies in Thursday’s debate brings to mind Swift’s poem “Description of a City Shower.”
Monthly Archives: June 2024
Trump’s Debate and Swift’s City Shower
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Excess and Deficiency in the Life Force
In “When Fragments Make a Whole,” Lory Hess reflects poetically on Jesus’s healing stories and applies them to our lives.
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Using Poetry to Mourn a Child
Jonathan Foster recent poetry collection “Indigo: The Color of Grief” powerfully captures the death of his child.
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The Debate: How Will Trump Fare?
In tonight’s debate, Trump will not have the adulatory audience to which he has become accustomed. Somewhat like Milton’s Satan when he returns to Hell.
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The Meaning of Trump’s Shark Fears
Trump’s anxiety about sharks can be understood through an examination of “Jaws.”
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Trump’s VP? Lady Bracknell Knows
How will Trump pick his V-P? As Lady Bracknell picks suitors for her daughter in “Importance of Being Earnest.”
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D.H. Lawrence’s Egotistical Jesus
In which I explore Lawrence’s ideas about focusing on self, not others.
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Which Is Scarier? The Storm or Jesus?
A Mary Oliver poem about Jesus calming the storm asks which is more frightening, the storm or Jesus?
Mackie, Trump, and Sadistic Thrills
Trump supporters may get a Mack the Knife thrill from watching their criminal leader perform.
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