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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The ICEman Cometh
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Trump’s Shadows? The Nothing That Is
Satirist Alexandra Petri uses a Wallace Stevens line to satirize Donald Trump’s conspiracy mongering.
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The Blue Guitar vs. Facebook
Wallace Stevens asserts that art changes “things as they are.” So does Facebook. We need the first to counteract the second when it is taken over by hostile forces.
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Bechdel Uses Lit to Understand Her Life
Alison’s Bechdel time and again turns to literature in her memoir to understand her upbringing.
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To Beauty: A Constant Sacrament of Praise
Wallace Stevens’ “Peter Quince” mingles eroticism with spirituality.
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