A Fresh Decoding of "Paradise Lost"
"Undergraduate Miranda Phaal from Tufts University has found a distinctive literary pattern that other Milton scholars have previously missed, and one which uncovers a hidden message inside the text."
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What Sparks Poetry:
Jennifer Chang on Collective Denial
"When I first encountered the poem several years ago, what stood out first to me was that an Asian poet was writing a contemporaneous poem about a defining tragedy of modern American history. 'In Memoriam' documents the intersectionality of grief. It determines the distance between marginalized perspectives, between elation and devastation, as no greater than an enjambed line. Consider the resonances between the poem and the slain minister’s final speech" |
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