It is tempting to look at a poem like John Keats' "On Seeing The Elgin Marbles" and classify it with his numerous other poems that dwell on growing old and dying. "On Seeing the Elgin Marbles" certainly can be read as a poem that is primarily preoccupied with the idea of mo...

'It is good to have an end to journey towards, but it is the journey that matters in the end.' Ursula Le Guin A journey is an arbitrary, cyclic conduit to which no end can be foreseen. The arrival of a journey is not the end, simply a reflection on the events thus far, a pause in the eternal flig...