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poetry appreciation

remember those emergency lanterns?

Feb 17, 2022 #alchemy, #alive, #amazement, #appreciation, #death, #emergency lantern, #energy, #Eve L Ewing, #Ewing, #existential, #glad, #gladness, #gratitude, #inspire, #inspiring, #joy, #joyful, #Libby Purves, #life, #mindful, #mindfulness, #presence, #Purves, #uplifting, #wonder by Lucy Crispin

The ones Libby Purves referred to when she spoke of how poetry could function? Well, for me this poem, ‘testify‘ by Eve L Ewing, is a great emergency lantern. Does it shine a light for you?

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poetry appreciation

autumn beauty

Oct 29, 2020 #ageing, #autumn, #beauty, #inspire, #melancholy, #poems, #poetry, #school, #swans, #teacher, #The Wild Swans at Coole, #time, #trees, #WB Yeats, #woods, #Yeats by Lucy Crispin

This was one of the three poems that changed the course of my life. That sounds rather dramatic, but it’s true. We “Did” Yeats for A-level and I was blessed with one of those teachers whose capacity to inspire you feel at the time without really realising what’s going on. Without Stevie I don’t know if I would have “got” literature and followed it as student, teacher, writer, throughout my life. So this is a very important poem for me. Here it is: ‘The Wild Swans at Coole‘ by Yeats.*

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