High-octane superlative adjectives and people who have “made it” are the usual suspects employed to define success. Can you ignore them all though and yet get to know success face to face? This episode inspects an Emily-Dickinson poem (on success of course!) to pry open the answer to that question.

(00:00) Introduction

(00:20) The Poem

(01:08) The Audience

(01:47) The Metaphor

(04:27) The Definers

(06:02) The Twist

(07:39) Wrap-up

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Transcript: https://bit.ly/3TmEbfh

Background Score: Youtube | Symphony No. 5 and Fur Elise: Beethoven

Background Sound: Pixabay.com and Koni Barry

A dead poet. The other the first to write English poems in India. The ocean. Seamews. The shore. The usual opera of nature. And a 19th-century poem. This episode unearths the elements of The Poet’s Grave and inspects its lines to find out the state of their semantics in the year 2025.

(00:00) The Poem

(01:24) Mood Music

(02:24) Dying Language

(03:44) Dying Symbols

(05:05) However, I Cannot Leave It At That

(07:55) The Family

(08:55) The Education

(09:50) The Scandal

(11:12) Still In The News?

(12:23) Wrap-up

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Transcript: https://bit.ly/43waqyI

Background Score: Pixabay | Voices of Eternity (Church Cathedral Choir): lucafrancini; Youtube | Growing Space: Astron, The Palace Gardens: Asher Fulero

In Episode 38, I said I wasn't sure whether Auden did write 'Give Me a Doctor'. Well, I cannot say that anymore. This episode tells you why.

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Transcript: https://bit.ly/4f6wnqb