Tag: literary analysis
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The Call of the Wild and COVID-19
Liam Butchart Stony Brook, New York, United States Samantha Rizzo Washington DC, United States Winter Scene in Moonlight. Henry Farrer. 1869. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. The COVID-19 pandemic has wrought a terrible toll upon all of us and has brought the medical system—and the providers who inhabit it—to its knees. There is a…
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Reading poems, saving lives
Dean Gianakos Virginia, United States Men and women who tout the value of poetry like to refer to a stanza in William Carlos Williams’ famous love poem, “Asphodel, That Greeny Flower”, written in 1947: It is difficult To get the news from poems Yet men die miserably every day For lack Of what is…