Eliot and Levertov have written powerful poems capturing the spirit of Ash Wednesday.
Tag Archives: T. S. Eliot
A Poem for Ash Wednesday
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Recovering a Child’s Sense of Wonder
In this Christmas tree poem, T.S. Eliot seeks to reconnect with his childhood sense of wonder.
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Tough Lives Need Poetry’s Toughness
A new book on the psychology of life-changing lit has alerted me to some great passages.
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A Light on the Darkling Road
George McKay Brown’s “Calendar of Kings” captures the gift of God in the world by dwelling on small moments.
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2020: Wandering between Two Worlds
A witty riff on a T. S. Eliot line and an illusion to a Matthew Arnold poem neatly capture the 2020 election results.
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Children’s Natural Affinity for Poetry
I describe here the remote poetry instruction I have been conducting with my 8-year-old grandson for the past four months.
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Trump as Low-Rent Lear
I agree with George Will that Trump is like the narcissistic King Lear and his GOP enablers like T.S. Eliot’s Hollow Men
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Valley of Dry Bounds, a Waste Land
Spiritual Sunday As we are in the Lenten season, the liturgy has of reading one of the strangest passages in the Bible, that being Ezekiel’s vision of dry bones. I repost today an essay from April 6, 2016 on T. S. Eliot’s allusion to the imagery. Given how desolate many of us are feeling these […]
The Thick Honey of This Good Life
Jane Hirshfield’s “Bees” explores how we find deep meaning in our lives–and why we sometimes opt for routine instead.
