Tag: Transcendent
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“Everyone Sang” – A Religious Poem?
Siegfried Sassoon had a Jewish father, and an Anglican mother, and was a convert to Roman Catholicism. This rather enigmatic poem was written just after the end of World War II, in which he served with the Royal Welch Fusiliers. Some have therefore understood it as describing an outburst of joy in response to the…
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A Transcendental Teashop Moment !
Even if the teashop is in the renowned city of Bath, the title of this delightfully whimsical little poem isn’t instantly and ear-catchingly promising. Whiling away the time with idle chitchat and the latest gossip is what we’d most likely expect. The first two lines, however, are decidedly not what we’d most expect. The curtain…
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