Tag Archives: Election 2020

Seamus Heaney’s Healing Vision

By Robin Bates | Published: November 8, 2020

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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Our New President Understands Suffering

By Robin Bates | Published: November 7, 2020

America has elected a president who understands suffering. A passage from Aeschylus’s “Agamemnon” seems right.

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“Stalin’s Epigram” and the Trump Era

By Robin Bates | Published: November 5, 2020

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

By Robin Bates | Published: November 4, 2020

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

By Robin Bates | Published: November 3, 2020

Baylebridge’s “After the Storm” will hopefully provide a suitable metaphor for America following the 2020 election.

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Do Not Let Your Anger Drown You

By Robin Bates | Published: October 28, 2020

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

By Robin Bates | Published: October 27, 2020

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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