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Poetry Explained
Poetry Explained does exactly that. The aim is to present poems — both great and maybe not-so-great — put them in context, analyse their structure and meaning, and maybe offer a word or two of criticism.
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Dec 2, 2022
Mrs Midas: A Poem by Carol Ann Duffy
What would it be like to be married to a man who turns everything he touches to gold?
“Mrs Midas” is one of the poems included in Carol Ann Duffy’s 1999 collection “The World’s Wife”…
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Dec 14, 2022
Mrs Sisyphus: A Poem by Carol Ann Duffy
The lament of a wife at the useless activity of her husband
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Dec 13, 2022
Tithonus: A Poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
A re-telling of a Greek myth from an interesting angle
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