Poetry
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Wordsworth’s “Two April Mornings”: How to time travel the free and easy way
While springtime may be the season of the “new,” it is riddled with trapdoors into bittersweet time capsules…
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A Red, Red Rose: The truly “timeless” beauty
“A Red, Red Rose” is a simple folk song preserved and published as a poem by Robert Burns.
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Poetry for Summer: Bees and Solitude
Walking through a pair of twin poems, “The Wish” by Abraham Cowley and “The Lake Isle of Innisfree”…
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Poetry for Springtime: William Wordsworth’s “Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood”
A bittersweet poem for a beautiful spring day, Wordsworth’s Ode holds together the beauty and loss of growing…