Poetry to Light up New Year’s Eve
Four eminent poets show how to enjoy and embrace the new year.
Marlena Figge
12/31/2025|Updated: 12/31/2025
Every year, the first lines of the Scots poem “Auld Lang Syne” by Robert Burns prompt us to muse on the same question: Should auld acquaintance be forgot, and never brought to mind? As we move into the new year, what do we do with our memory of the old year?
Burns isn’t alone in his reflections on this point. Other poets too have seized the occasion of the celebration of the new year to reflect on how we ought to treat memory.
Man can hold either too loosely or too tightly to the past. As Marcus Aurelius noted, “Every Man’s Life lies all within the Present; For the Past is spent, and done with, and the Future is uncertain.” There is danger in forgetting the past completely or refusing to learn from it.
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