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

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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

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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

A doctor, a patient, and a poem conspire to make you laugh. And this episode offers you questions to deconstruct them all—the alleged laugh including.

(00:00) Before You Begin

(00:57) An Allegation

(02:25) The Poem Itself

(02:56) What Sort of a Doctor?

(04:42) Who Talks Like That?

(05:33) A Question of Life and Death

(07:11) What Lies Beneath?

(08:00) Am I Biased?

(09:30) Wrap-up

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

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Does it make sense for the human in you to employ AI to complete this workshop? Think about it; write down your reasons; and then listen in.

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

Part 5 might antagonize you into rethinking the shape and size of your rhyme and verse. Proceed with caution.

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Transcript: https://bit.ly/4gW5wzd

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Part 4 brings out the knives and the sewing kit: You’ll rip—and quilt lexical patches—into your writing to bring your verses alive.

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

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Part 3 asks you to let your words stew for a while. Come back to it later, it says; and it also tells you why.

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

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