Month: December 2023

  • The Meaning of Christmas

    On Christmas Day, 1677, American poet EdwardTaylor’s daughter Elizabeth, died two days before she would have turned a year old.1 Isn’t that sad? Her other daughter Abigail, also passed away…

  • Poetics, Classics, and Christmas 🎄

    Pairs of iambs and trochees like bunches of red rose bouquets sway in the feebly twinkling light a poet’s recollection and delight. Stanzas and quatrains to pen in the poet’s…

  • The Concept of Women’s Liberation in Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales

    by Marites Bundoc             Let me begin this discussion with the question: Who is a liberated woman? The picture of a liberated woman seems peculiar when we look at her…