The poem narrates a kind of Agatha Christie murder story in a country house. No one, in the end, survives the weekend. When the sun (the light of Reason? the eye of God?) shows up to survey the damage and “tidy up,” he is unable to separate “the assassins from the victims.”...
When the war broke out in 1939, Anglican poet W. H. Auden put the case bluntly:We must love one another or die. A year later, he wroteNew Year Letter(January 1,1940),a long poem considering “what is possible and what is not” in such a time. Most of the poem is addressed to ...
Science quotes on: | Bow (15) | Heart (243) | Humble (54) | More (2558) | Motive (62) | Poem (104) | Thousand (340) | Value (393) I wanted certainty in the kind of way in which people want religious faith. I thought that certainty is more likely to be found in mathematics...
Wang Changling 王昌齡 (698–757) once wrote a poem to praise Wanhui’s high status: “When Wanhui acted foolishly, he would scare everyone; but when he was wise, he could become the emperor’s teacher. He acted in accordance with this era; there is no more capable person produced by ...
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Susan Cooper wrote a poem called “The Shortest Day,” recited at every Revels. She imagines all the generations who preceded us, burning their “beseeching fires all night long to keep the year alive.” She hears their joyful voices echoing down from their time into ours: ...