Byron’s “deep and dark blue ocean” rolls on and so does the Alabama Crimson Tide.
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Roll On, Thou Alabama Crimson Tide, Roll
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Can Poetry Be Bad for You?
The possibility that poetry can have a deleterious effect on one (the poetry of Scott and Byron anyway) is a possibility that Austen brings up in “Persuasion.”
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Assad Came Down Like a Wolf on the Fold
The Syrian president’s assault on his people reminds me of Lord Bryon’s poem “The Destruction of Sennacherib,” where a superior force is defeated by the cause of justice. Time will tell whether this is no more than a fantasy.
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