Tag Archives: Lewis Carroll

Joe Biden as Old Father William

By Robin Bates | Published: March 26, 2024

Think of Joe Biden as Lewis Carroll’s Old Father William, who pushes back against ageism.

Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged "Old Man's Comforts and How He Gained Them", "You Are Old Father William", Aging, Donald Trump, Joe Biden, Robert Southey | Comments closed

To Understand Trump’s Trials, Ask Alice

By Robin Bates | Published: March 25, 2024

To understand the Trump trials, check out Lewis Carroll’s Alice books.

Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged Alice through the Looking Glass, Alices Adventures in Wonderland, Donald Trump con games, Trump trials | Comments closed

Revolutionary Mother Goose

By Robin Bates | Published: February 26, 2024

Mother goose rhymes, nonsense verse, and playful fantasy are essential to our mental health.

Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged "Owl and the Pussycat", Age of Reason, Alice in Wonderland, Alice through the Looking Glass, anarchy, Cat in the Hat, Dr. Seuss, Edward Lear, Essay on Human Understanding, John Locke, Mother Goose | Comments closed

MAGA “Justice” and the Queen of Hearts

By Robin Bates | Published: September 7, 2023

“Sentence first, verdict afterwards,” say both MAGA Republicans and Lewis Carroll’s Queen of Hearts.

Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged Alice in Wonderland, GOP, impeachment, MAGA | Comments closed

A Moses Poem for a Lost Child

By Robin Bates | Published: August 19, 2023

Mourning her dead child, this writer chose to read a poem echoing the infant Moses story.

Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged "Cargoes", "Jabberwocky", "Late Fragment", "Moses", "Sonnet 29", "Taking Care", "Theme in Yellow", Calista Buchen, Carl Sandburg, child's death, death and dying, John Masefield, Luis Alberto de Cuenca, Raymon Carver, William Shakespeare | Comments closed

Obey Your Parents or Face the Lion

By Robin Bates | Published: July 26, 2023

Today being Hilaire Belloc’s birthday, I share one of his darkly comic “Cautionary Tales for Children.”

Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged "How Doth the Little Crocodile", "How Doth the Little Busy Bee", Alice in Wonderland, Cautionary Verses for Children, Children, Heinrich Hoffman, Hilaire Belloc, Isaac Watt, Leviathan, Struwwelpeter, Thomas Hobbes | Comments closed

Reading “Jabberwocky” to a Dying Child

By Robin Bates | Published: May 24, 2023

Reasons why a mother might read “Jabberwocky” to a dying child.

Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged "Jabberwocky", "Moses", death and dying, death of a child, Luis Alberto de Cuenca | Comments closed

Alice, Victorian Rebel

By Robin Bates | Published: January 26, 2023

Lewis Carroll’s Alice books use nonsense to hold off no-nonsense adult society.

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The Usefulness of “Let’s Pretend”

By Robin Bates | Published: January 24, 2023

In “Seduced by Story,” Brooks challenges the idea that literature is meant to be useful. Instead, he says, it resembles play (and then acknowledges that play itself is useful).

Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged Alice in Wonderland, Alice through the Looking Glass, narrative, narratology, Peter Brooks, Seduced by Story | Comments closed