the art of everyday life

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The Sunlight on the Garden

Louis MacNeice's poem reveals that the fleeting beauty of little things become ever more important in times of melancholy.
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suppose

Reflecting his deft use of poetic structure, e.e.cummings suggests that death is not the end of life.
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Snow

Louis Macneice captures life's profundity and richness in the abstraction of ordinariness.
The Fall of Icarus by Pieter Bruegel
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Musée des Beaux Arts

W.H. Auden reminds us that we're really not as important as we think.
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For Once, Then Something

A lesser-known yet powerful Robert Frost poem about the importance of perspective and the fleeting nature of revelation.