Edgar Guest and Li-Young Lee capture our family gathering of this past week, both the joy of being together and the memories of those we have lost.
Tag Archives: Robert Frost
Two Family Poems for the New Year
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The ICEman Cometh
ICE’s attack on immigrants brings to mind Frost’s “Fire and Ice,” O’Neill’s “The Ice Man Cometh,” Stevens’s “The Emperor of Ice Cream,” and Niemöller’s “First They Came.”
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What to Make of a Diminished Month
“The Oven Bird” is a good poem to read when one is feeling old.
Tales of Wood Splitting
In which I reflect on gathering and chopping wood.
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Dante’s Version of Heaven on Earth
In talking to Solomon in Paradiso, Dante gets a new vision of heaven on earth.
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Kennedy Defended Controversial Lit
J.F. Kennedy praised lit that challenges society.
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Reflecting on Career Paths Not Taken
In which I reflect on roads not taken in my career.
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Winter Solstice and Desert Places
In “Desert Places,” Frost finds despair in a handful of snow. Maybe he also has in mind Melville’s discourse on whiteness in “Moby Dick.”
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