Poetry has always been present in times of war but with mixed success at improving conditions.
Tag Archives: Homer
Literature in Time of War
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged burning books, Ernest Hemingway, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Hitler, Iliad, King John, Louis Untemeyer, Modern American and British Poetry, Nadezhda Mandelstam, Osip Mandelstam, Robert Graves, Stalin, Uncle Tom's Cabin, William Shakespeare Comments closed
Cloud Cuckoo Land: The Power of Story
Doerr’s “Cloud Cuckoo Land” is testimony to the power of story to save us when we need saving.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged alternative facts, Anthony Doerr, Antonius Diogenes, climate change, Cloud Cuckoo Land, global warming, Odyssey Comments closed
A Vet Sees Himself in Odysseus
In Huey’s poem, a veteran who has seen combat frames his experience in terms of “The Odyssey.”
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged "We Were All Odysseus in Those Days", Amorak Huey, Odyssey, Saving Private Ryan, Veterans, Veterans Day, war Comments closed
Homer, Virgil, Dante and the Afterlife
Literary afterlives, such as we encounter in Homer, Virgil, and Dante, are as much about this world as the next.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged Aeneid, Afterlife, Dante, death, Divine Comedy, Inferno, inner doubts, midlife crisis, Odyssey, Paradiso, Samuel Johnson, Virgil Comments closed
How Lit Inspires Courage and Love
Fletcher in “Masterworks” argues that epic narrative can boost courage and lyric disclosure can do the same for love.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged "Fragment 16", "He seems to me a god", Angus Fletcher, courage, Iliad, literature as self help, love, Masterworks, Odyssey, Sappho Comments closed
God Reaches Us through Art
I share a talk about the relationship between God and creativity. Authors mentioned: Shelley, Homer, Plato, Silko, Walker, Clifton.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged "Ode to the West Wind", "the light that came to lucille clifton", Alice Walker, Artist's Way, Ceremony, Color Purple, Creativity, Intimations of Immortality, Ion, John Milton, Julia Cameron, Leslie Marmon Silko, Lucille Clifton, Paradise Lost, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Plato, poetic muse, Republic, William Wordsworth Comments closed
On Trump, Achilles, and Retribution
Trump has been threatening retribution on his enemies. The Iliad shows the corrosive effects of revenge.
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Is Your Life Epic? Ask the Gods
A visit to an Irish literature museum alerted me to this Patrick Kavanagh about what makes something epic.
Homeric Tactics Anticipate Ukraine’s
War scenes from the Iliad bring to mind the Battle of Bakhmut–especially when it comes to superior Ukrainian intelligence gathering.
