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just as one example consider upon written by emily dickinson and he 1865. now, today people think of emily dickinson as a kind of pride that teaching in the garden and the drawing room, but the truth is she was michael a very powerful instrument for detecting what was happening around her and expressing it in ways different from those that others to. 1865 was the turning point in which james mcpherson and others called the second american revolution, the surrender of the assassination of lincoln, the final approval of the 13th amendment, the beginning of the reconstruction congress and dickinson detected what was going on. consider 1865 was her most productive year as a poet whether there is any sink and a city in that or not i don't know, but it is a moment when all of american society was changing, becoming something radically different and she felt a burst of energy during that year. consider one that she wrote that begins like this. revolution is the pond systems rebel from. when the winds of will are stirred, excellence is born. in this stanza she uses

just as one example, consider a poem written by emily dickinson in 1865. how today, people think of emily dickinson is a kind of private poet of the kitchen and the guardian on the drawing room, but the truth is she was like all great poets, a very powerful instrument for detecting what was happening around her and expressing it in ways different from those that others do. 1865 was the turning point in which james mcpherson and others call the second american revolution. the surrender at appomattox, the assassination of lincoln, the final approval of the 13th amendment, the beginning of the reconstruction congas and dickinson detective of this going on. 1865 got away with her most productive year poet. whether there's any synchronicity and then i don't know, but it is a moment when all american society was changing, becoming something radically different and she felt a burst of energy during the year. consider one poem she wrote that begins like this. revolution is upon systems rattle from. when the winds of will are stirred, excellences boom. in this stan

you are reborn as emily dickinson and experience with her struggles with god you are reborn as walt whitman and experienced to attempt to struggle with nothing at all but to accept everything that he sees. you walk down the road with walt whitman and your mind is in march and your spirit is in march and you're sympathetic imagination and capacity to be another person is also enlarged. this is a spectacular gift and it is available not exclusively in the humanities, but it seems to me words have a certain magic that allow this to happen in amazing ways. it's hard to explain why that is so there's an in one nest and a community about the reading that allows for this kind of a sympathetic imagination. and i think i have to admit it's rather wonderful. another thing that the humanities get and we were just catching on in a moment ago. another gift of the humanities get is very simple. i start with genex in the locomotive moment feeling deterministic and feeling the way of some force that reaches out its hand and controls. it says language speaks man to which i want to say it speaks some people

[♪] >>la poetisa norteamericana emily dickinson dijo: "ignoramos nuestra verdadera estatura hasta queÉ lo demandas yo que pides para resolver este caso. >>dra. polo, demando a mi esposo, tenemos seis meses de casados; simplemente estoy cansada de Él. quiero el divorcio y que se vaya de mi casa. >>porque viven en tu casa. >>sÍ, correcto. >>a casa que tenÍas pre-matrimonial, antes del matrimonio. >>sÍ >>perfecto. ahora cuÉntame, por favor, la storia de ustedes y por quÉ el matrimonio estÁ irremediabmente roto. >>le cuento un poco de mi hioriantes desto. yo lo conocÍ en el gimnasio, fue mi entrenador personal. >>ok. >>se me ocurriÓ hacer un grupo de gente pequeÑa, de swingers. >>¿de swingers? >>a swingers club. pero tÚ eres tremendita. >>como le digo, querÍa diversiÓn, ya que en mi vida he pasado por mucha discriminaciÓn; voy al baile y los muchachos solo me miran, "ah, ok". como si fuese un animal raro. >>te desprecian... >>sÍ. y yo dij entre mi gente, mi gente pequeÑa, hay que hacer un grupo. tengo como de diez a 20 personas amigas y s gustÓ la idea. >>de hacer un club swinger de peque

. >> you also have emily dickinson, bob dylan. how did that begin?searching for new material, or this is a president who sort of seeks -- he consumes information. i think a lover of culture. how did those get worked into devotionals. >> the president loves two things, history and jazz. i try to weave in those things, nina simone, meditations about abraham lincoln, how he dealt with enemies and folks who were tough to find common ground w i tried to find sources of inspiration that meant something to the president and hopefully to other people as well. >> we talk about sort of cultural stereotypes in this country. to a large degree the right and conservatives have owned the mantle of the religious right and christianity. if you look at progressive policy it's more in line with good christian ideas. can you go back to conference of catholic bishops came out against the paul ryan budget and said this is not moral or sister simo simo simone, those on the left. >> it's particularly strange given how much churches were a part of the civil rights movement a