Tag Archives: John Keats

Earth Day: Please Brake for Woolly Bears

By Robin Bates | Published: April 22, 2015

Scott Bates’ Earth Day poem calls for protecting even caterpillars. After all, sometimes they grow up to be Keats’ tiger moths with their “deep damasked wings.”

Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged "B Brakes for Butterflies", butterflies, Earth Day, Environment, Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Scott Bates, woolly bears | Comments closed

Reading Lit through the Eyes of Others

By Robin Bates | Published: July 23, 2014

Reading literature through the eyes of others brings special pleasures and insights.

Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged John Milton, May Swenson, Paradise Lost, reading, William Shakespeare | Comments closed

Art Is the Path to Liberation

By Robin Bates | Published: May 8, 2014

Nick Brown, a very bright philosophy and English double major, reflects on how to live a worthwhile life. An aesthetic approach to life is at the core of his argument.

Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged "Ode on a Grecian Urn", Albert Camus, Art, As You Like It, Dogen, Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts, existentialism, Fear and Trembling, Karl Marx, liberation, Macbeth, Myth of Sisyphus, Soren Kierkegaard, Zen Buddhism | Comments closed

Fantasy Provides Aid for Life’s Storms

By Robin Bates | Published: March 4, 2014

As a child who grew up immersed in fantasy fiction, I knew, as deeply as I knew anything, that these books put me in touch with something that was deep and true. As I grew up, of course, I learned that I had to move beyond fantasy just as I had to move beyond childhood. […]

Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged Eve of St. Agnes, fantasy, Sigmund Freud, Tempest, William Shakespeare | Comments closed