Gwendolyn Brooks’s poem “truth” dramatizes the conflict between disturbing hope and familiar darkness. Think of it as an Advent poem.
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When the Light Knocks on the Door
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The Courage to Find Hope Within
A recent poem about hope–which many of us need at the moment.
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Akhmatova’s Response to Despair
Ana Akhmatova writes that although horrors threaten us, “cherries blow summer into town.”
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The Green Power of Imagining
In “Secret Garden,” healing begins with imagining a hopeful future. It’s a lesson for dealing with our environmental challenges.
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Earth-Hearted Hope for Dark Times
How to maintain hope in the face of catastrophic climate change? Hope is key, as Emily Dickinson and John Muir understood.
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Poetry Helps Balance Realism & Hope
Poetry not only calls out society’s ills but offers us hope.
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Song of Hope: The Night Cloud Is Hueing
With the passage of the Covid relief bill and increased vaccinations, Hardy’s “Song for Hope” seems appropriate.
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Can We Love the Morning Again?
In this poem Levertov talks about the difficulties of loving the morning again after a night of horrors.
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