John Lewis’s mentor James Lawson read a Czeslaw Milosz poem at Lewis’s funeral, showing how deeply he understood social activism.
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To Memorialize, Turn to Poetry
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged "I Dream a World", "Invictus", "Meaning", Czeslaw Milosz, Hamlet, James Lawson, John Lewis, Langston Hughes, Romeo and Juliet, William Ernest Henley, William Shakespeare Comments closed
Antigone Would Bury Boston Bomber
Sophocles and Homer present compelling cases for granting full funeral rights to the Boston Marathon bomber.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged Ajax, Antigone, Boston Marathon bombing, Homer, Iliad, Odyssey, Sophocles, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, Terrorism Comments closed
