Tuesday, November 04, 2008

Great Regulars: Psychologically, the poem is a piercing portrait

of the human "soul", with its rational fear of death and its irrational dream of a future "Good morning", if not "in some brighter clime", at least amid the whirling atoms.

[by Anna Laetitia Barbauld]

Life

(Animula, vagula, blandula)

from Carol Rumens: The Guardian: theblogbooks: Poem of the week

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