Emily Dickinson, “I’m Nobody! Who are you?” (J288; Franklin 260)
“I’m Nobody! Who are you?” (Franklin 260) Emily Dickinson I’m Nobody! Who are you? Are you – Nobody – Too? Then there’...
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Notes on Dickinson’s “Hope is the thing with feathers…” (254)
“Hope” is the thing with feathers… (254) Emily Dickinson “Hope” is the thing with feathers – That perches in the soul –...
Just finished a Straussian ritual, Aristophanes’ “Clouds:” Preliminary Notes on the Limits of Comedy
1. Consideration of comedians: they use laughter to make everything ridiculous. The good things, while made ridiculous, still are essentially good and cannot be...
Does Memory Necessitate Pain? On Dickinson’s “Such is the Force of Happiness” (787)
“Such is the Force of Happiness…” (787) Emily Dickinson Such is the Force of Happiness – The Least – can lift a Ton Assisted by it...
Running into a Professor on the Internet feels Weird: On Sophocles’ Antigone, 334-375, the “Ode to Man”
Karl Maurer is a professor of mine, so it is with an especial pride I present to you these lines. I ran into him accidentally on the Chronicle of Higher Educati...