BRAVING STORMS: John Foy on “Point of View”
In late August 2011, the very outer edges of Hurricane Irene were felt in Cape Cod as the storm, by then an extratropical cyclone, moved inland toward Vermont and…
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BRAVING STORMS: John Foy on “A Refusal to Mourn the Death, by Fire, of a Child in London”
“A Refusal to Mourn the Death, by Fire, of a Child in London” – Here, again, a storm of grief, this time over a young girl who…
BRAVING STORMS: John Foy, “On My First Son”
Here’s a storm that’s internal and emotional. Ben Jonson wrote “On My First Son” in 1603 after the death of his seven-year-old boy, Benjamin. The…
Braving Storms: John Foy on “Storm Fear”
“Storm Fear” has always been one of my favorite early Robert Frost poems. Like “The Seafarer,” it’s an adversity poem that finds the speaker wondering how he’ll manage as the elements…
Braving Storms: John Foy on “The Seafarer”
The theme this month at the Ideasmyth blog is “braving storms.” To address it, I’ll be posting poems that deal in one way or another with…