"If I can stop one heart from breaking," Emily Dickinson
If I can stop one heart from breaking Emily Dickinson If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain; If I can ease one life the aching, Or coo...
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On Frost’s "Meeting and Passing"
Meeting and Passing Robert Frost As I went down the hill along the wall There was a gate I had leaned at for the view And had just turned from when I first saw ...
On Pound’s "In a Station of the Metro"
In a Station of the Metro Ezra Pound The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet, black bough. Commentary: I used to think the speaker of this p...
On Frost’s "Mowing:" Death, Love and Dante
Mowing Robert Frost There was never a sound beside the wood but one, And that was my long scythe whispering to the ground. What was it it whispered? I know not ...
The Unity of Justice and Fraternity: On Lincoln’s "Second Inaugural"
Commentary below the speech, that makes sense of the speech paragraph-by-paragraph. My apologies for the format of this post; I hope you will read it in its ent...