Seamus Heaney’s “Cure at Troy” points toward a country’s possibility for healing, a powerful vision as America emerges from the Trump presidency and a contentious election.
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Seamus Heaney’s Healing Vision
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Our New President Understands Suffering
America has elected a president who understands suffering. A passage from Aeschylus’s “Agamemnon” seems right.
“Stalin’s Epigram” and the Trump Era
Russian poet Osip Mandelstam describes life under Stalin. It eerily describes what life feels like under Trump.
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2020: Wandering between Two Worlds
A witty riff on a T. S. Eliot line and an illusion to a Matthew Arnold poem neatly capture the 2020 election results.
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After the Storm
Baylebridge’s “After the Storm” will hopefully provide a suitable metaphor for America following the 2020 election.
Do Not Let Your Anger Drown You
Many Trump supporters are consumed by anger. Dante shows how they construct their own hells in the process.
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Protest, Don’t Sin by Silence
Ella Wheeler Wilcox’s “Protest” was written in 1914 but it might just as well have been written today given its relevance.
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