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Pied Beauty: Dappled Things
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 God "fathers-fort...
The Banquet: Sweet and Sacred Cheer
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 towards his Creator. ...
The Agony: Do You Want to Know
“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 Herbert explores the m...
Kubla Khan: Beware, Beware!
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 Kyba's analysis an...
Kubla Khan: Caverns Measureless to Man
Have you ever enjoyed a time in your life (or lived through a period of history) marked by prosperity, abundance, and opulence—yet felt a certain unease, especially wh...
The Holy Communion: Leaping the Wall
How do you imagine God in relation to yourself? Is He a distant entity, to be admired from without? Or does He seek to be with you, making His way into your inner soul...
The Tables Turned: A Study Break
Perhaps you've encountered YouTube videos appearing on your feed to tell you to get off YouTube. In today’s episode of The Poetry Fix, join Erika Kyba to encounter the...
The Grasshopper and the Ant: Not Quite a Morality Tale
In today’s episode of The Poetry Fix, join Erika Kyba for another bilingual episode. She reads La Fontaine's famous "The Grasshopper and the Ant" in French and English...
The Oak and the Reed: Let us See the End
In today’s episode of The Poetry Fix, join Erika Kyba for a bilingual episode. She reads La Fontaine's "The Oak and the Reed" in French and English, exploring a poem-p...
I Taste a Liquour Never Brewed: Inebriate of Air
In today’s episode of The Poetry Fix, join Erika Kyba to read Emily Dickinson's "I Taste a Liquour Never Brewed." It's a poem about getting drunk on the beauty of the ...
How Many Nights: Who’s Afraid of the Dark?
In today’s episode of The Poetry Fix, join Erika Kyba to read Galway Kinnell's "How Many Nights," the work of a modern existentialist poet. We all remember our childho...
Nobody Knows This Little Rose: Taken From the Ways
In today’s episode of The Poetry Fix, join Erika Kyba to read Emily Dickinson's "Nobody Knows This Little Rose." It's a deceptively simple little poem, in which the po...
The Poetry Fix: Comus, Part Seven
In today’s episode of The Poetry Fix, join Erika Kyba to read the continuation of Comus and the Lady's first encounter. We have already seen that our heroine has a ver...
Comus: Square my Trial to my Proportioned Strength
In today’s episode of The Poetry Fix, join Erika Kyba to read the continuation of Comus and the Lady's first encounter. We have already seen that our heroine has a ver...
Comus: Such Divine Enchanting Ravishment
In today’s episode of The Poetry Fix, join Erika Kyba to read the excerpt of Milton's "Comus" in which Comus and the Lady are united for the first time. Erika finds th...
Comus: The Lady Enters
In today’s episode of The Poetry Fix, join Erika Kyba in the journey through Milton’s Comus as the leading lady makes her first appearance. The lady presents herself a...
Comus: A False Shepherd
Join Erika Kyba to encounter the rising action of Milton's Comus, as the wicked spirit Comus hears the approach of a noble lady and plots to seduce her by passing hims...
Comus: A Trickster Spirit
Join Erika Kyba to read an excerpt from Milton's Comus, in which the titular trickster spirit is introduced. She discusses Comus's use of rhetoric, mixing the pleasura...
Mortality: Their Story we Cannot Unfold
Join Erika Kyba to conclude reading William Knox's "Mortality." Today, Erika discusses the difficulty of preserving the memory of the dead.
Mortality: Why Should the Spirit of Mortal be Proud?
Join Erika Kyba for an unflinching look at death as she reads William Knox's "Mortality." Our poet reminds us that all of our earthly triumphs are necessarily ephemera...