Apples bring out poetic creativity, all the more so because the West has seen them as the forbidden fruit. I share here a selection of tempting apple poems.
Tag Archives: Paradise Lost
Apples That Taste of Earth and Song
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Putin’s Seduction of Donald Trump
Think of Putin as Satan, Trump as Eve, and Adam as the GOP in a reenactment of Paradise Lost.
Milton: Sex as a Holy Sacrament
Spiritual Sunday My wife has been researching her Moravian past prior to a heritage trip to the Czech Republic and other important Moravian way stations in the trek to Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, where Julia’s ancestors landed. Some of these ancestors were missionaries who made their way to Grace Hill, Iowa, where Julia grew up. Julia reported […]
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Retiring to the Garden of Eden
Stepping out of our U-Haul truck and into my mother’s wood, I felt I had entered Milton’s Garden of Eden.
Literature Has Paul Ryan’s Number
Lewis Carroll, Charles Dickens, Chinua Achebe, John Milton, and Thomas Hardy see through men like departing Speaker of the House Paul Ryan.
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Satan and Trump, Gifted Demagogues
Satan in “Paradise Lost” is a gifted leader who manipulates people for his own selfish ends–like a certain American president.
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How To Find a Paradise Within, Happier Far
Milton would have called those white evangelicals promoting Trumpism “grievous wolves.”
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Irma as Milton’s & Dante’s Infernos
If one thinks of a hurricane “eye” as an anus, then the winds from hell take on a different resonance–especially when seen through Milton’s and Dante’s eyes.
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