Perhaps June 16th snuck up on you. You have been going about your day unaware…but you notice something is definitely…off. It seems that wherever you go, people are bellowing what appears to be stream-of-consciousness ranting, slapping one another on the …
Category: Authors and Poets
Twain Tells All: 100 Years After His Death
“Death is the starlit strip between the companionship of yesterday and the reunion of tomorrow,” reads a quote on a monument dedicated to Mark Twain. This year, readers finally get a bridge to that starlit strip of history. Twain, in …
Enotes Revives Dead Poets
In the midst of teaching, my mind often wanders to the great inspiration of Mr. Keating in the film Dead Poets Society. I first saw this film as an aspiring teacher and was so moved that I cried all the …
Poets in Black and White: Remembering Lucille Clifton and Robert Frost
At eNotes this month, we are taking some time to remember two great American poets: Lucille Clifton and Robert Frost. Clifton passed away on February 17, 2010, and March 26 marked Frost’s birthday. Seldom have two writers articulated their view …
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