From today’s massive, subversive and powerfully creative world of the Beats and beyond which artist and/or writer inspired you most?… Read more Process, Process, Process
Category: Critical Posts
Power of Emotion and writing from the Heart…
How do you understand Faulkner’s extraordinary statement in his Nobel Prize speech “the problems of the human heart in conflict… Read more Power of Emotion and writing from the Heart…
Delight and Wisdom…
Do you share Robert Frost’s belief that “A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom…it runs a course of lucky… Read more Delight and Wisdom…
“Color-line”
“The problem of the Twentieth Century is the problem of the color-line”. What do you think Du Bois means? (p.885)… Read more “Color-line”
O CAPTAIN! MY CAPTAIN!
Give a brief account (in your own words) of why Whitman referred to Abraham Lincoln as “O Captain! My Captain”.… Read more O CAPTAIN! MY CAPTAIN!
Humanity’s secret?
Can you say briefly (in around 250 words) how the thoughts and images of either Emerson or Thoreau (or both)… Read more Humanity’s secret?
A new spiritual journey?
Can we apply the Native American sense of the importance of nature to make our own lives more whole and… Read more A new spiritual journey?