In which I compare Trump’s madness with that of King Lear.
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Tag Archives: Love Song of J. Alfred Pruforck
The Madness of Donald Trump
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged Christopher Marlowe, Dante, dementia, Doctor Faustus, Donald Trump, Inferno, King Lear, Marjorie Taylor Greene, T.E. Eliot, William Shakespeare Leave a comment
I Am Lazarus Come Back from the Dead
I’ve just realized that the Lazarus mentioned in Eliot’s “Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” is a different once than I’ve been assuming. This makes me appreciate the poem even more.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Grand Inquisitor, hell, Lazarus, poverty, T. S. Eliot Comments closed
The Complex Inner Life of Teachers
Lily King’s “The English Teacher” is filled with literary lllusions, most of them thematically important.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged "Voice", Annabelle Lee, Beowulf, Edgar Allen Poe, Homer, Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain, Odyssey, Othello, Rose for Emily, T. S. Eliot, Tess of the D'Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy, William Faulkner, William Shakespeare Comments closed