... poet’s ministry to sick and wounded soldiers, which lasted about as long as Christ’s ministry in the Galilee, schooled him in loving ... live in? How might that word guide your attempts to write about this moment in history? Is that word large enough to capture the spirit ...
sbaehr - 07/13/2021 - 14:01
... poet feels his breath “tight in its throat,” as if he is about to die into this moment of ecstasy, ready to surrender himself to this ...
kraken - 07/13/2021 - 13:59
... “I come and I depart,” and readers are left to wonder about the wisdom of the change, which brings to mind Auden’s controversial ...
kraken - 07/13/2021 - 13:59
... sewing her cloth. After the Civil War, he added the lines about “the soldier camp’d” on the night before battle who seeks out the ...
kraken - 07/13/2021 - 13:59
... “there are definitely things (people) I don’t care about hearing, but the most wonderful thing I can now hear ringing loud and ...
sbaehr - 07/13/2021 - 14:01
... the modern tradition of finding in everyday objects clues about the meaning of existence—a tradition inaugurated by Whitman, who asked ...
kraken - 07/13/2021 - 13:59
... to “feed on the spectres in books”? Don’t we all learn about the world and develop our beliefs by listening to and learning from ...
kraken - 07/13/2021 - 13:59
... from his soul. W. D. Snodgrass made a tantalizing suggestion about the origin of Whitman’s poetics: to wit, that in the conjunction of the ...
kraken - 07/13/2021 - 13:59
... question is provocative because there is something mystical about eyes (“the windows to the soul,” as they’ve been called for ...
kraken - 07/13/2021 - 13:59
... escapes the ravages of war. The hardest part of writing about it may be surviving to tell the story . Once, in Lebanon, I was ...
kraken - 07/13/2021 - 13:59
