For Amy and Charlotte, composed at Northern Lights Espresso Bar in Scranton, PA. In motion emergestime and space.At rest convergencemakes both possible.And one wondersabout place,which is merely when things stop.And whether we are actually stopping,or seeking to moveagain.
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About Ashok
I am a graduate student in political science at the University of Dallas who thinks the media is dumb for the most part, yet am immersed myself. I am looking to break my addiction, and this blog is part of the solution: Why not try to see what the past can tell us about the present, as opposed to seeing what the present has to say about the present only?
Currently residing in Cherry Hill, NJ. Facebook. Contact me.
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- Analysis of The Gettysburg Address: Is Democracy Feasible?
- Analysis of Lincoln's "Second Inaugural:" Where do American virtues lie?
- Commentary on the Book of Jonah
- On "Batman Begins"
- From Love to God: On Hopkins' "As Kingfishers Catch Fire"
- On Emily Dickinson's "These are the days when birds come back..."
- The Coming Age: Macbeth and the Birth of the Modern World
- On Polemarchus: Commentary on the Republic of Plato, 331d-336a
- A Reading of Plato's "Crito"
- Towards a Nietzschean Understanding of Politics: Notes on "The Case of Wagner"
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Sometimes, you can’t get a poem out of your head: On Dickinson’s "These Are The Days When Birds Come Back"
These are the days when Birds come backEmily Dickinson These are the days when Birds come back –A very few — a Bird or two –To take a backward look. These are the days when skies resumeThe old — old sophistries of June –A blue and gold mistake. Oh fraud that cannot cheat the Bee …