Sunday, April 28, 2024
After the Romantics, foreign poets tend to get lost in studies of Western literature. Even among modern poets, Seamus Heaney can be overlooked because he stands apart from the rest. Instead of breaking from tradition like T. S. Eliot and E. E. Cummings, Heaney’s poetry embraces tradition, transcending time and […]
When flipping through a book of poems for something to read, it is easy to skip over the long poems that go on for pages and only read the short ones. Who has time to waste on a long poem– or, in this digital age, the attention span? Certainly, short […]
Every year I begin playing Christmas carols on the piano a month or two before December starts, and I am struck once more by the incredible beauty of these hymns. Christmas carols fill my heart with magic not only because of their association with my favorite time of year, but […]
“I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.” When I was young and first came across these lines, I thought, “Oh, what a […]
Broadway fans know the musical Cats by Andrew Lloyd Webber for its famous song “Memory” and for its rather nonexistent plot. With Webber’s repertoire of more successful musicals such as Evita and The Phantom of the Opera, one might have expected more from him. However, unbeknownst to many, the original […]