Literature has a role to play in the fight against climate change. Coleridge early on showed us how.
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Tag Archives: climate change
Poets and Climate Change’s 5-Alarm Fire
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Hydrocarbons Are Our Dark Satanic Mills
Blake’s “Jerusalem” can be read as a challenge to oppose the forces of climate change that threaten our beautiful country.
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Ragnarok, an Extreme Weather Event
Gaiman’s account of the Norse apocalypse Ragnarok comes close to describing a world destroyed by climate change.
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How to Overlook 200,000 Deaths
Donne’s “Valediction: Forbidding Mourning” captures why America might be overlooking 200,000 deaths at the moment.
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Apocalyptic Fire Ravages the Nation
For literary equivalents of the west coast fires, look to “The Aeneid” and to Vasily Grossman’s “Life and Fate.”
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Without Nature, No Language for Soul
In an age when we are exhausted by apocalyptic rhetoric, Richard Wilbur provides a poem that remind us of how much we owe to natural beauty.
To Fight Climate Change, Plant Gardens
Wendell Berry asserts that growing and maintaining gardens is an antidote to climate change.
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The World Will End in Fire AND Ice
When Frost wrote, “Some say the world will end in fire, some say in ice,” it now appears (judging by Australia and Greenland) that everyone is right.
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