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Guigemar: Cupid's Ambush
In this installment of Guigemar, the incandescent, fierce flame of desire begins to consume Guigemar and his lady.
Guigemar: The Hospitality
This installment of Guigemar portrays the lady's reply to the wounded knight and illuminates aspects of her character, such as her hospitality and virtue. However, the...
Guigemar: The Encounter
This installment of Guigemar portrays the first encounter between Guigemar and the imprisoned young lady. The poet brings some interesting elements to the forefront in...
Guigemar: The Caged Lady
This installment of Guigemar introduces some important new characters into the story. Most important of these is a young lady, imprisoned by her jealous and much older...
Guigemar: The Voyage
This installment of Guigemar takes our protagonist to a magical ship that sets sail without any prompting of his. Guigemar falls fast asleep in a room that bears stron...
Guigemar: The Curse
This installment of Guigemar portrays our protagonist's fateful hunt of a white hind with a stag's antlers. Considering the supernatural legends associated with the wh...
Guigemar: The Hunt
Today, we read an opening excerpt from Marie de France's Guigemar, a medieval tale of curses, courtly intrigue, and forbidden love. We examine the poet's characterizat...
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock: Do I Dare to Eat a Peach?
Today, we finish out "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock," watching the final analysis of our narrator's life play out. The narrator asks himself a seemingly bizarre...
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock: The Perils of Communication
This installment of T. S. Eliot's "Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" shows our narrator justifying his decision not to pursue his beloved by pointing out the perils of ...
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock: When Death Itself Mocks Us
This installment of T. S. Eliot's "Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" begins to unravel the dark consequences of our narrator's failure to courageously pursue that which...
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock: How Should I Presume?
This installment of T. S. Eliot's "Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" reintroduces our narrator's fruitless longing for romance, as he is paralyzed by beauty rather than...
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock: To Dare or Not to Dare?
This installment of T. S. Eliot's "Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" takes our narrator right up to the entrance of a social engagement, where he wavers between enterin...
The Poetry Fix: The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, Part 2
In this episode of The Poetry Fix, we revisit T. S. Eliot's Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock.
The Poetry Fix: Bavarian Gentians
In this episode of The Poetry Fix, we explore one of D. H. Laurence's final works: "Bavarian Gentians."
The Poetry Fix: On This Island
In this episode of "The Poetry Fix," we pause from the rush of life and experience W. H. Auden's "On This Island."
The Poetry Fix: The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
In this episode of The Poetry Fix, we explore the first part of T. S. Eliot's "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock."
The Poetry Fix: Easter, 1916
In this episode of The Poetry Fix, we explore Easter, 1916, by William Butler Yeats.
The Poetry Fix: Spring
In this episode of The Poetry Fix, we read "Spring," by Gerard Manley Hopkins.
The Poetry Fix: A Knife of Pure Blade
In this episode of The Poetry Fix, we read "A Knife of Pure Blade," by Joao Cabral do Melo Neto.
The Poetry Fix: My Essence is Exhaustion
In this episode of The Poetry Fix, we explore Fernando Pessoa's "My Essence is Exhaustion." No, this is not the lament of a tired college student- it's something a lit...
The Poetry Fix: Voices From a Tomb
In this episode of The Poetry Fix, we explore the darkly mysterious "Voices From a Tomb," by Augusto dos Anjos.
The Poetry Fix: Episode 5
In this episode of The Poetry Fix, we continue our journey through "In Memoriam A. H. H."
The Poetry Fix: Episode 4
In this episode of the Poetry Fix, we explore the beginning of Tennyson's "In Memoriam A. H. H."
The Poetry Fix: Episode 3
In this episode of The Poetry Fix, we explore Charles Baudelaire's "Correspondences."
The Poetry Fix: Episode 2
In this episode of The Poetry Fix, we explore Elizabeth Barrett Browning's famous "Sonnet 43."
The Poetry Fix: Pilot
In this episode of The Poetry Fix, we explore Tennyson's enigmatic "Mariana."