As I spent a night in an emergency room, I thought of my wife, my mother, and this Piercy Ruth and Naomi poem.
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A Friendship Stronger Than Fear
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Stately Pines, Cathedral Towers
Many American poets have found God in nature, including Longfellow. His “Cathedral Towers” compares pine trees to a church.
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She Stood in Tears amid the Alien Corn
The figure of the Biblical Ruth takes on new resonance when she makes an appearance in Keats’s “Ode to a Nightingale.”
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Half in Love with Easeful Death
In his haunting “Ode to a Nightingale,” Keats imagines himself as a homesick Ruth standing “amid the alien corn.”
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