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Back to SearchThe Wife of Usher’s Well: It Fell About the Martinmass
Episode 106
Is it dangerous to cling to the departed, when it is time for them to pass into the afterlife? The folk poet of “The Wife of Usher’s Well” seems to t…
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Epithalamion: An Unusual Invocation
Episode 105
If you've completed high school English, it's likely you've heard of the standard "invocation of the muse" invoked by epic poets such as Homer and Vi…
1 week, 2 days ago
A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning
Episode 104
Does absence make the heart grow fonder? John Donne, our poet who believes so strongly in the united souls of lovers, asks himself what happens to th…
3 weeks, 5 days ago
The Ecstasy: A Dialogue of One
Episode 103
When you love someone, do you love them with your soul, mind, or body? Is love by one of the faculties superior to that of the others? John Donne med…
1 month ago
Since She Whom I Lov'd Hath Paid Her Last Debt: A Holy Thirsty Dropsy
Episode 102
Is it possible to have enough love to be content? Can a Christian be content with God's love, being that God is infinite, or will he always crave mor…
1 month, 1 week ago
Start Close In: The Ground You Know
Episode 101
Can you know others without knowing yourself? This is the question which David Whyte interrogates in "Start Close In," as he examines what it means t…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
Pied Beauty: Dappled Things
Episode 100
We tend to think of beauty in terms of purity and proportion, but Hopkins upends those conventional ideas in "Pied Beauty." Instead, he proposes that…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
The Banquet: Sweet and Sacred Cheer
Episode 99
In today's episode of The Poetry Fix, tune in for further musings from George Herbert on the Eucharist, Christ's sacrifice, and man's orientation tow…
2 months ago
The Agony: Do You Want to Know
Episode 98
“Do you want to know?” That’s the question that undergirds George Herbert’s “The Agony.” Join Erika Kyba to encounter this poem, in which George Herb…
2 months, 1 week ago
Kubla Khan: Beware, Beware!
Episode 97
Do you seek beauty, or do you fear it? In "Kubla Khan," Coleridge places most of humanity on the second side of that equation; tune in to hear Erika …
2 months, 2 weeks ago