In which I explain how The Iliad saved my freshman year in high school.
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The Iliad Saved My Freshman Year
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Wanted: Teachers, Not Martyrs
Some say teachers should, like soldiers, should put their lives on the line. This A.E. Housman poem brings up the question of whether even soldiers should do so when there sacrifice will be meaningless.
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Poetry Changed during World War I
The horrors of World War I created some great poetry. But not in its early days.
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Memorializing Our Lost Innocence
Wilfred Owen’s “Strange Meeting” is not only about the soldiers who have died but how their death taints the living.
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