To bolster yourself against this age of anxiety, memorize robust poetry. Other poetry works as well.
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The Case for Memorizing Poetry
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Trump’s Pleasure Dome (with Caves of Ice)
Coleridge’s Kubla Khan and Donald Trump have a lot in common: both build sunny edifices that prove to be sterile at the core.
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The Fiscal Cliff as Kubla Khan’s Chasm
Our looming fiscal cliff can be imagined as Coleridge’s “deep romantic chasm” in “Kubla Khan.”
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Kane: Sunny Pleasure Dome, Caves of Ice
Film Friday I’m teaching Citizen Kane currently in my American Film class and am struck, once again, by the influence that Coleridge’s “Kubla Khan” had on the movie. My father and I tried to make this case in an article that we wrote on Citizen Kane a number of years back (described here), and while the editors […]
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