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Poem recommendation
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Every September early I reread W. H. Auden's poem, "September 1, 1939." It may be my most favorite poem of all. I commend it to your attention. It lifts my spirits ..a little.
https://poets.org/poem/september-1-1939
And there is a longish, somewhat dated perhaps, but good commentary on it at encyclopedia.com.
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I could be Bernie Sanders older brother by similarity. I was born in Manhattan, 1940, he, about a year later, in Brooklyn. I too am a white male American. A retired college professor of philosophy. We both were born of Jewish parents. I was (more...)
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