Tag Archives: Wendell Berry

Finding Beauty in Ravaged Landscapes

By Robin Bates | Published: April 20, 2016

In “Gift of Gravity,” Wendell Berry finds beauty even in ravaged landscapes. But is there a limit to how much of a devastated landscape he could learn to love?

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The Peace of Wild Things

By Robin Bates | Published: December 21, 2014

My Intro to Literature class explored how a disconnect from nature leads to existential anguish while opening themselves up to nature provides spiritual nourishment.

Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged "Ancient Mariner, "Egrets", "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud", "Killing the Trees", "Peace of Wild Things", All the Pretty Horses, Bacchae, Barbara Kingsolver, Ceremony, Cormac McCarthy, Euripides, Flight Behavior, Leslie Marmon Silko, Lucille Clifton, Mary Oliver, Midsummer Night's Dream, Nature, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, spiritual healing, William Shakespeare, William Wordsworth | Comments closed

Inundated by E-Mail? A Mixed Solution

By Robin Bates | Published: September 12, 2013

Wendell Berry has a poem addressing a fantasy many of us have had: jettisoning all our mail (and now, e-mail).

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Poems Teach Us to Be Wise

By Robin Bates | Published: May 20, 2013

Two young student athletes in my Intro to Literature took important lessons from “Rime of the Ancient Mariner” and a Wendell Berry poem.

Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged "Thirty Years Later", Coming of Age, Education, Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Comments closed