Posts Tagged ‘David Brendan Hopes’
Poetry Friday: “Carol of the Infuriated Hour”
December 23, 2016
Christmas carols: we love their joyous celebration of the birth of Christ. In “Carol of the Infuriated Hour,” David Brendan Hopes takes the carol form—its rhythm and rhyme scheme—to present a more complex view of the Christmas event. The poem’s speaker has “warred” with God, but he decides to cease his struggle “for the sake…
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