Wednesday, July 18, 2012

A Poet by Any Other Name

Useful though the notion of ?the speaker? may be sometimes, it is challenged by certain poems. Among these, for me, is Ben Jonson's poem ?On My First Son.? For me, the poem represents one of the most moving uses of a name ? for each of us our own name, in a way, the word most difficult to hear as others do. ?Benjamin,? I've learned, comes from the Hebrew for ?son of the right hand,? an origin Jonson alludes to in the first line.

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