17 February 2017: "I kind of thought it was about the illusion of separated suffering." --student in my ENGL 301 class, sharing an idea about Elana Bell's poem "Your Village" that kind of knocked my socks off. We were talking about how one could construct a New Critical or a Reader Response interpretation and I was stumbling through an extemporaneous "universal human theme" for the New Critical perspective. And then my student came up with this. Love it.
For the record, I've blogged about this poem before. I wish it weren't still so relevant, but simultaneously, I sure am glad it exists.
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