Mary Oliver makes a Eucharistic feast out of a fish she has caught, bringing to mind Jesus’s injunction to become “a fisher of people.”
Tag Archives: Dylan Thomas
Going Gently into That Good Night–Or Not
In which I pull on Kenyon, Dylan Thomas, Conrad, Chandler, Lawrence and others in an attempt to penetrate the mysteries of dying.
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Refusal to Mourn? Just the Opposite
9 children died in yesterday’s Bronx fire, bringing to mind Dylan Thomas’s “Refusal to Mourn the Death, by Burning, of a Child in London.” The poem is not what it seems.
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Where Are the Snows of Yesteryear?
With our first snowfall of the year, I am taken back to the snowfalls of my childhood–and to Dylan Thomas’s “Childhood in Wales.”
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Death Has Made Me Wise, Bitter, Strong
I honor Veterans Day with a Sassoon poem where a veteran remembers fallen comrades.
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Mixed Emotions about My Alma Mater
To understand my feelings of melancholy when I returned to my alma mater, I turned to poems by Lawrence, Housman, and Dylan Thomas.
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When Evil Quotes Dylan Thomas
Tuesday High school English teacher extraordinaire Carl Rosin has several times contributed essays to Better Living through Beowulf, usually writing about his students grappling with ethical issues through a literary lens. (Carl recently served on the National Humanities Center Teacher Advisory Council.) In today’s post we learn about his class exploring what it means for […]
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Sleeping Outdoors
Poetry adds an extra dimension to sleeping outdoors.
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