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Mark Bauerlein discusses three poems about winter by American greats Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, and Wallace Stevens.
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I took a class in poetry and short fiction in college, and the prof did her dissertation on Emily Dickinson. She kinda passionate about it, though I never caught the bug. Anyway, she pointed out that most of ED’s poems could be sung to the tune of Amazing Grace.
She didn’t appreciate it when I pointed out that you can also sing “Because I would not stop for Death…” to the tune of “The Ballad of Gilligan’s Isle.”