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Mutabilitie: Change as Tyrant
Do you seek out change, or view it as a destructive force? Edmund Spencer, in “Mutabilitie,” imagines change as tyrannizing over the lives of men to gain glory for her...
The Wife of Usher’s Well: It Fell About the Martinmass
Is it dangerous to cling to the departed, when it is time for them to pass into the afterlife? The folk poet of “The Wife of Usher’s Well” seems to think so. Join Erik...
Epithalamion: An Unusual Invocation
If you've completed high school English, it's likely you've heard of the standard "invocation of the muse" invoked by epic poets such as Homer and Virgil. What would h...
A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning
Does absence make the heart grow fonder? John Donne, our poet who believes so strongly in the united souls of lovers, asks himself what happens to this harmony when th...
The Ecstasy: A Dialogue of One
When you love someone, do you love them with your soul, mind, or body? Is love by one of the faculties superior to that of the others? John Donne meditates on this the...