Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s poem “Get Thee Behind Me Satan” shows the poet turning away from soaring ambition.
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Let These Weak Feet Tread in Narrow Ways
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Apples That Taste of Earth and Song
Apples bring out poetic creativity, all the more so because the West has seen them as the forbidden fruit. I share here a selection of tempting apple poems.
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Robert Mueller, the Eye of Sauron
Comedian Seth Meyers recently compared Robert Mueller’s gaze to the eye of Sauron. No wonder there is panic in the White House.
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Milton Cautions vs. Scientific Arrogance
One of my science students found a way to examine her frustrations at her limited knowledge by looking at Satan and Eve in “Paradise Lost.”
