Crane’s poem “Forgetfulness” captures the ambiguity of this mental state.
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Poet Hart Crane on Forgetting
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Where Are the Snows of Yesteryear?
With our first snowfall of the year, I am taken back to the snowfalls of my childhood–and to Dylan Thomas’s “Childhood in Wales.”
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Death Has Made Me Wise, Bitter, Strong
I honor Veterans Day with a Sassoon poem where a veteran remembers fallen comrades.
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Where Are the Toys of Yesteryear?
Where are the toys of yesteryear? Such is the lament of this poem by Scott Bates.
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Jane Austen’s Musings on Memory
The minds translates the helter-skelter of events into tidy narratives, often to the detriment of what really happened. Fanny Price in “Mansfield Park” muses on this phenomenon.