The secret garden in Burnett’s novel works as a metaphor for the soul.
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Secret Garden, Hidden Soul
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Late to the Party
Patrick Kavanagh’s ode to a late-leafing poplar.
March Has Come in Like a Liobam
What do you have when March comes in as both a lion AND a lamb. Thanks to Margaret Atwood, we have liobams.
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Diverse Stones Dancing in a Spring
Henry Vaughan’s “Regeneration” uses spring imagery to capture spiritual regeneration.
Spring, a Conflagration of Green Fires
To welcome in the spring, here’s a D. H. Lawrence poem, brought to you by the color green.
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Shafts of Golden Light
Easter Sunday For Easter I offer up two April poems that work as a before and after. First, Rainer Maria Rilke speaks of the “slumbering silence” before everything bursts into flower. Then William Carlos William describes that bursting as almost too much to bear. First the breathless anticipation, then the flowering. In the Rilke poem, […]
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