If I drone on and on about how we need to be more serious, then my words won’t be taken seriously no matter how true they are. The pain we know others experience alone should be reminder enough of what is at stake.
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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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OK, I’m sold. What should I read here?
- 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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A Consideration Regarding Mourning: On Dickinson’s "To hang our head – ostensibly…" (105)
“To hang our head – ostensibly…” (105) Emily Dickinson To hang our head – ostensibly – And subsequent, to find That such was not the posture Of our immortal mind – Affords the sly presumption That in so dense a fuzz – You – too – take Cobweb attitudes Upon a plane of Gauze! Comment: …