HeyJaredWaterskiing on Poetry - Waving hello to poems and poets with Neil Elder
A light-touch exploration of poems and poetry with Neil Elder, long-time English teacher and prize-winning poet.
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Ep 17 - When we say 'war poetry' we think of trenches, mud and gas. But what happens when the fighting has ended? Who clears up? How do lives go on? In these extraordinary poems Carl Sandburg and Wisława Szymborska help us think about wars in ways we usually do not. Do we need to remember every battle? Do we need to move on with our lives or is that disrespectful? Against man's absurd behaviour, ultimately nature endures (we hope). Read the poems here - The End And The Beginning - Szymborska ht
Know your Limits (opens the original)
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Ep 16 - Where is the divide between healthy ambition and something more dangerous and foolhardy? Do we need to get to Mars? In There Are Roughly Zones , Robert Frost explores man's desire to push boundaries with a peach tree as a metaphor. In Polar Bear George Bilgere examines the dividing line between the great wide younder and man's place in the world. We hold the poems up to the light to see what we can learn about our own ambitions. You can read the poems here - Robert Frost - https://voetic
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