“That’s my middle-west”: Nick Carraway’s Christmas Memories

By buckeyemuse | December 24, 2015 |

One of my all time favorite passages from The Great Gatsby concerns Christmas and the Midwest. The passage comes towards the end of the novel as Nick Carraway is describing the aftermath of Gatsby’s murder and preparing to leave New York. There’s something about this passage that captures that exhilaration of returning home for the…

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A Christmas poem by Vachel Lindsay

By buckeyemuse | December 23, 2014

Here’s a Christmas poem from Vachel Lindsay’s The Congo and Other Poems, published one hundred and three years ago in 1914. It’s also an introductory poem to the first half of the third section of the book. It’s entitled “This Section Is a Christmas Tree.” “This Section Is a Christmas Tree” This section is a…

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