The December issue of The Atlantic has an article dissing Dylan Thomas and, in particular, claiming that Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night is overrated. Bah! It is, admittedly, a poem with some odd and difficult choices of words. But it also has the sheer brilliance of the line "Curse bless me now with your fierce tears I pray." That is a line worth dancing in a green bay for if ever a line of poetry was.
Defending Dylan Thomas
The December issue of The Atlantic has an article dissing Dylan Thomas and, in particular, claiming that Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night is overrated. Bah! It is, admittedly, a poem with some odd and difficult choices of words. But it also has the sheer brilliance of the line "Curse bless me now with your fierce tears I pray." That is a line worth dancing in a green bay for if ever a line of poetry was.
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Follow-up to Yesterday's Post
There are several things I should have mentioned in yesterday’s entry about my education and career. My father was a civil engineer. When I…
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My Brilliant Career
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Doctor Doctor
This whole kerfuffle that arose when a failed college instructor attacked Dr. Jill Biden over using her professional title is fairly comic in an…
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