In “School Boy,” the idea of going to school in summer appalls Blake. He’d be horrified at American start times.
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Tag Archives: William Blake
Methought I Heard One Calling, “Child”
For Father’s Day, here are a couple of God the father poems.
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Chaucer’s Miller & the Los Angeles Rams
The LA Rams won the Super Bowl, bringing Chaucer’s Miller to mind.
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Hydrocarbons Are Our Dark Satanic Mills
Blake’s “Jerusalem” can be read as a challenge to oppose the forces of climate change that threaten our beautiful country.
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Father God, I Want to Sit on Your Knees
A Katherine Mansfield poem to “God the Father” for Father’s Day.
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A Star Has Fallen, to Blossom from a Tomb
John Heath-Stubbs’s “On the Nativity” is one of my favorite Christmas poems.
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Lit that Championed Chimney Sweeps
Watching modern chimney sweeps at work, I’m relieved that we’ve left behind the days of William Blake and Charles Dickens.
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Reluctance to Go to School
Friday School has already opened in some states (Tennessee) and has yet to open in others (Maryland) so I’ve split the difference by choosing today to honor the occasion. Jonathan Swift’s mention of a laggard schoolbody in “A Description of the Morning” has always fascinated me. “Description of the Morning” gives an account of the […]
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