Note from the Publisher: This piece belongs to the Merion West Legacy series, referring to articles and poems published between 2016 up to Spring 2025.

For Whom the Nobel Tolls: Tomas Tranströmer’s “The Blue House”

For Whom the Nobel Tolls: Tomas Tranströmer’s “The Blue House”
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“The lines, like long, rolling ocean waves on a cold Baltic sea, create their own reasons, their own rhythm, their own understanding. Anaphora is used, as Whitman did, to summon us to the great historical pageant of life, of happenings beyond our immediate knowledge.”

Timeless reading in a fleeting world.

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