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Episode 4 - Shakespeare, Frost and Kavikko Abdul Rahman

Hello there! Welcome to Episode 4. Beginning this episode I shall be presenting some of the best poems in world poetry i enjoyed reading & teaching. Let's listen to the words! Let life touch you! We spend a lot of time indoors in these stra

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Hello there! Welcome to Episode 4. Beginning this episode I shall be presenting some of the best poems in world poetry i enjoyed reading & teaching. Let's listen to the words! Let life touch you! We spend a lot of time indoors in these strange times, hardly communicating with the near and dear, separated by distance and dread of disease! Time for some sunshine! Words from these great men and women bring so much joy, restore balance, and the power to face life head on! Listening becomes such a special joy, strengthening ties, reinforcing faith in life, sustaining our hope for better times. ’A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom’ said Frost. We relate our own thoughts,feelings, happenings in our lives to the life revealed in the poem. The compressed nature of short/excerpts we read leads the listener to a spiritual or emotional high. Remember the closing lines of a long elegy Lycidas “ At last he rose, twitched his mantle blue; tomorrow to to fresh woods and pastures new.’ Every Time a tragedy strikes you, you visit these words for comfort, for hope,for courage to move on with life. William Shakespeare: An enduring and commanding influence on world cultures, creator of around 1200 characters, mobilised more than 20000 words, We will visit him as often as we can! They say you cultivate your eq thru the plays,relating yourself to the characters,.Let them speak to you directly! Read him,again and again! Sonnet 73 by William Shakespeare: It's not about love or romance as many sonnets are.Its about the autumn of life, about ageing, gracefully ageing I guess. Learn to love the poem when young! The images of autumn will travel with you right through the winter of life. Drama of life in 14 lines, from the master himself! To the sonnet then! Robert Frost: A great regional voice from America, from New England. An extraordinary American phenomenon in the words of Prof. Harold Bloom, wise, witty, he firmly believed in the Delight, wisdom poetry gives. This poem Road Not Taken is about choices, It tells us how difficult it is to make choices and enjoy the differences they bring to our lives. Kavikko Abdul Rahman: One of the significant voices of New Tamil poetry. Of the 20th century. Distinguished professor of tamil he has brought new dimensions to tamil poetry thru his complex images, A deceptively mesmerising style, his poems a blend of love, life and spiritualism. On to Episode 4! Time to lend our ears to Shakespeare, Frost, and our very own Kavikko Abdul Rahman!!! Happy listening! This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit profrn.substack.com

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This Week in Poetry

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