Marlena Figge
Author
Marlena Figge received her M.A. in Italian Literature from Middlebury College in 2021 and graduated from the University of Dallas in 2020 with a B.A. in Italian and English. She currently has a teaching fellowship and teaches English at a high school in Italy.
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Dickinson and Donne on Death
Two poets personify death as a figure that encourages acceptance of the passage and is viewed as a victory.
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‘The Road Not Taken’: A Poem Taken Much Too Seriously
Seeing Robert Frost’s popular poem in a different light.
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‘Concord Hymn’: Ralph Waldo Emerson and the Road to America’s 250th Birthday
Layers of history unfold through Emerson’s tribute to the brave patriots who risked their lives for the making of a new nation.
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William Wordsworth’s ‘I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud’
The poet spelled out how beauty brings the soul to higher contemplation.
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St. Augustine, Longfellow, and the Ladder of Love
The acclaimed poet acknowledges the saint’s order of things in our climb to reach ‘our higher destinies.’
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Lincoln the Poet: The American President Who Loved Verse
The self-educated Lincoln enjoyed reading and writing poetry.
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‘The Lord of the Rings’: Of Stories and Journeys
Storytellers are bridges connecting the past to the present, as seen in Tolkien’s Bilbo Baggins.
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Vittoria Colonna’s Sonnet 45: Imperfectly Captured, Perfectly Inspired
Sacred and high art can sometimes feel distant or underwhelming to modern viewers. Perhaps their limitations are intentional.
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