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April 2, 2021 Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s post. As a reader, and a human, I am always drawn towards love’s many dimensions. Unlike Janus who faces in two directions only (forward and backward), love is indescribably complex. For that reason, it absolutely fascinates me. Although Louise Glück’s book Ararat from 1990 …
February 12, 2021 Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s post. Language has the power to both escalate and de-escalate tense situations. Sometimes a well-intentioned comment fits perfectly, and sometimes it causes more harm than good. Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet is often considered a love story. However, over the years, I have come to …
December 11, 2020 Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s post. Last week, I wrote a blog dedicated to understanding the nature of Rosamond’s and Lydgate’s love in George Eliot’s novel Middlemarch. Though I had previously argued against the idea that they were actually ever in love, I have since changed my mind. In …
December 4, 2020 Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s post. The tricky nature of love never ceases to amaze me. George Eliot’s novel Middlemarch explores many complicated examples love. Today’s blog will focus on the relationship between Tertius Lydgate and Rosamond Vincy. Rosamond is Lydgate’s second love. Before moving to Middlemarch, he had …
August 7, 2020 Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s post. Today’s blog is really just what the title says, an experiment in voice. By combining a number of voices that I have recently read, I stitched together a found poem. This is a fun way to transition from season to season. As summer …
February 14, 2020 Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s post. Natasha Trethewey’s poem “Myth,” from Native Guard, beautifully describes what it is like to seek the impossible. Trethewey wrote the poem as an expression of sorrow at the loss of her mother. Written as a palindrome, it is a perfect representation of loss …
May 10, 2019 Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s post. I am blessed with strong women in my ancestry. Like most women, however, I find that their strength is often invisible. This invisible strength appears daily, hourly, routinely, in the way they made time for others, spent late hours fixing others’ problems, carrying …
September 14, 2018 Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s post. Shakespeare is a favorite topic of mine, and of many of our students. Recently, I read and discussed Shakespeare’s Troilus and Cressida. Though we didn’t have time to compare it to Chaucer’s poem Troilus and Criseyde, I wanted to spend a few moments …
March 2, 2018 Thanks to James Keller, a 2018 Harrison Middleton University Fellow in Ideas, for today’s post. In leaving Carthage, Augustine abandoned his mother, Monica. A widow, she pleaded with her son not to leave – or, if he must go, not to leave her behind. She would come with him. He lied to …
February 16, 2018 Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s post. “Sanskrit has 96 words for love; ancient Persian has 80, Greek three, and English only one.” – Robert Johnson, The Fisher King and the Handless Maiden I think that it would be ideal to have somewhere between 96 and 3 words for love. …
