Tag: grief
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A Reading of Seamus Heaney’s Human Chain
Human Chain is a book that talks about the difficulty of sustaining life and the loss of loved ones, using the language of physical labor – lifting, carrying, handing-off, and unburdening. At times, labor and physical sensations are made to feel infinitely deep for their resonances with the experience of life and death. Other times,…
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Frederick Goddard Tuckerman – “An upper chamber…”
An upper chamber in a darkened house, Where, ere his footsteps reached ripe manhood’s brink, Terror and anguish were his cup to drink; I cannot rid the thought, nor hold it close But dimly dream upon that man alone: Now though the autumn clouds most softly pass, The cricket chides beneath the doorstep stone, And…
Sam Reads Poetry 