Articles tagged Emily Dickinson
My Favorite Sources for Really Good Books
by Beth
Friday, 01 November, 2013
categories: Articles, Classical Christian Education, Homeschooling Life
Friday, 01 November, 2013
categories: Articles, Classical Christian Education, Homeschooling Life
He ate and drank the precious words,
His spirit grew robust,
He knew no more that he was poor,
Or that his frame was dust.
He danced along the dingy ways
And this bequest of wings
Was but a book. What liberty
A loosened spirit brings.
- Emily Dickinson,
The Poems of...
Words that Count: Discovering the Mathematics of Poetry
In a 2011 article for the American Mathematical Society, mathematician Cai Tianxin made a striking claim. He wrote, “It could be said that mathematics and poetry are the freest intellectual activities of human beings.”1
His suggestion is doubly daring: first, because...
My Classical Journey with the Magi
Last year, I had the opportunity to study T.S. Eliot's poem "The Journey of the Magi" with a high school student whom I was tutoring. I had read the poem before and my graduate school roommate was an Eliot aficionado, so I felt reasonably confident as I approached the...
Beating the Winter Blues
Lo! now the direful monster, whose skin clings
To his strong bones, strides o’er the groaning rocks:
He withers all in silence, and in his hand
Unclothes the earth, and freezes up frail life.
—William Blake, “To Winter”
The first semester of the school year is winding...