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The poet alerts us to small, mundane details from everyday life that we would otherwise most likely overlook or take for granted. Once we regain our focus, it just may turn out that "all’s right with the world". Or is it?
Not long ago, on one of my nature walks I visited a small lake near the town of Barajevo, Serbia. Once I got back home, I searched my library for a poem that would go well with my mental images of the place. And here it is - the subject of this blog post - Rudyard Kipling’s ‘The Way through the Woods’.
Reading this poem, you immediately find yourself in a wintery nature setting. What T. W. Higginson describes is just a fleeting moment: a wonderful snapshot captured in words.
Born in Concord, Massachusetts, on 12 July 1817, Henry David Thoreau is one of the key figures of 19th century American literature. A prolific writer, transcendentalist philosopher and naturalist, Thoreau is now best known for his two-year experiment in minimalist, hermit-like living in a small cabin by the shores of the Walden Pond, eloquently described …
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