These are the questions that Thomas Hardy grapples with in his poem "Poetry, She At His Funeral." Through exquisite language and evocative imagery, Hardy paints a picture of a woman at her lover's funeral, grappling with the pain and emptiness of her loss. In this essay, I will offer a...
wonder tales, and goddesses. Joanna serves as adjunct professor in Pacifica Graduate Institute’s Mythological Studies program, and as director of marketing and communications for theJoseph Campbell Foundation, where she also contributes to the popular MythBlast essay series. ...
A Funeral Elegy The Second Anniversary The Harbinger to the Progress: [By Joseph Hall] An Anatomy of the World; or, the Progress of the Soul: The Second Anniversary The Progress of the Soul Epistle The Progress of the Soul: First Song ...
My kids remind me that most of this stuff is findable now on the Internet, and it’s true. I don’t tear out as much as I used to. Once in awhile now, when I find a great bit of trivia/great article/great essay/great review of a great book/ great New Yorker cartoon online, ...
In that essay, I also learned that in some places, female Asian elephants are used by human mothers to babysit their children because of the elephants’ very high levels of intelligence, sense of nurturing, and responsibility. Having seen them up close, I can very easily picture this scenario...
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Tis but a word from God the great Creator, It shall be done when he saithImprimatur. John Norton also commemorated the death of Cotton by an elegy; his verses in praise of Mrs Bradsheet have already been mentioned. Nathaniel Ward, the Simple Cobler of Agawam, wrote poetry in his facetious...
Consider our hymn of the day. So often poetry and art and music can say more than a well-formed essay. In the first verse, Pastor Susan Briehl names God’s glory multiple times. In the second verse we sing, “power without peer, you bend to us in weakness, emptied, you draw near...
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It is also really telling that one of his first ideas to come into the comic scene was to do a parody of Superman. It is fascinating because, as Hannah Arendt argues in her seminal essay on the schlemiel, “The Jew as Pariah,” that Charlie Chaplin had failed to laugh Hitler out of...