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.
LATEST
Learning to Be a Friend, in Jane Austen’s ‘Emma’
In Part 1 of a two-part series, Austen’s heroine learns what it means to be a friend to Harriet Smith.
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William Shakespeare’s ‘Sonnet 65’: Timeless Beauty
The great English writer shows how a poem written down can take beauty from of the confines of time.
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’The Charge of the Light Brigade’ by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
The poet transforms a military blunder into a call to glory.
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Matthew Arnold’s ‘Dover Beach’: Faith in a Faithless Age
The poet urges a return to tradition and belief in God in the age of science.
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Wordsworth’s ‘Among All Lovely Things My Love Had Been’
The Romantic poet celebrates how the simple things in life can show true love.
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A Prayer and a Song: Compline and ‘An Evening Hymn’
A song by St. Gregory Nazianzus interprets the night prayer of the Divine Office.
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‘Blackberries for Amelia’: A Poem for Summer by Richard Wilbur
The small act of picking berries reflects the divine directive to cultivate virtue.
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‘Canal Bank Walk’: A Mystical Writer’s Poem of the Commonplace
Irish poet Patrick Kavanagh discovers his spirit renewed in the beauty of nature.
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‘Escape at Bedtime’ by Robert Louis Stevenson
A child’s imagination is captured in this beautiful, starlit nighttime scene.
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4 Indispensable Lessons in Hospitality I Learned Working in a British-Style Tearoom
More than clotted cream and fine china, it’s the small, love-driven details that stay with you long after the last sip.
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Learning to Be a Friend, in Jane Austen’s ‘Emma’
In Part 1 of a two-part series, Austen’s heroine learns what it means to be a friend to Harriet Smith.
|
William Shakespeare’s ‘Sonnet 65’: Timeless Beauty
The great English writer shows how a poem written down can take beauty from of the confines of time.
|
’The Charge of the Light Brigade’ by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
The poet transforms a military blunder into a call to glory.
|
Matthew Arnold’s ‘Dover Beach’: Faith in a Faithless Age
The poet urges a return to tradition and belief in God in the age of science.
|
Wordsworth’s ‘Among All Lovely Things My Love Had Been’
The Romantic poet celebrates how the simple things in life can show true love.
|
A Prayer and a Song: Compline and ‘An Evening Hymn’
A song by St. Gregory Nazianzus interprets the night prayer of the Divine Office.
|
‘Blackberries for Amelia’: A Poem for Summer by Richard Wilbur
The small act of picking berries reflects the divine directive to cultivate virtue.
|
‘Canal Bank Walk’: A Mystical Writer’s Poem of the Commonplace
Irish poet Patrick Kavanagh discovers his spirit renewed in the beauty of nature.
|
‘Escape at Bedtime’ by Robert Louis Stevenson
A child’s imagination is captured in this beautiful, starlit nighttime scene.
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4 Indispensable Lessons in Hospitality I Learned Working in a British-Style Tearoom
More than clotted cream and fine china, it’s the small, love-driven details that stay with you long after the last sip.
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