Emerson’s “A Nation’s Strength” is must reading in this time of trial.
Tag Archives: Ralph Waldo Emerson
What Makes a Nation Strong? Not Fascism
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We’re All Embattled Farmers Now
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Soliloquies Changed Us Fundamentally
Hamlet’s soliloquies changed the way we see ourselves and others and led the way to the novel.
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Out of Pain We Feed This Feverish Plot
Oliver captures Christian fish imagery in “The Fish.”
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Longfellow, 19th-Century Rock Star
More passages from Pearl’s “The Dante Club,” about the 19th Century’s love of poetry.
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Here I Bloom for a Short Hour Unseen
In “Sic Vita” Thoreau uses the image of plucked flowers to wrestle with the meaning of life and death.
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A Nation’s Strength: Truth and Honor
Ralph Waldo Emerson speaks to America’s core ideals in “A Nation’s Strength.” Now we just have to honor them.
Can We Love the Morning Again?
In this poem Levertov talks about the difficulties of loving the morning again after a night of horrors.
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Use Poetry to Teach American Civics
Poetry can be used to teach core American values, which we need at the moment more than ever.
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