Take a quick break and relax with a poem. Pause for Poetry is a short poetry podcast with each episode featuring an out-of-copyright poem read over a bed of relaxing music. Individual music is written for each episode to capture the character or mood of the poem. New episodes every Tuesday and Thursday.
The Rose and the Bee by Sara Teasdale | Pause for Poetry Season 1, Episode 19
A short and sweet poem to end our first season of Pause For Poetry. Sara Teasdale was a leading female voice in American poetry at the beginning of the 20th Century, won a Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1917 and saw much critical and popular success.
https://mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-30442 (https://mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-30442)
We're taking a little break over summer but will be back with more poetry very soon in Season 2.
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3 Aug 2021
A Dead Rose by Elizabeth Barrett Browning | Pause for Poetry Season 1, Episode 19
A sort of elegy written for a flower, this poem uses the image of the dead rose as a reflection of the fragiliy of life. Barrett Browning was an incredibly successful and talented poet who, through her marriage to poet Robert Browning, became very well-known in her lifetime.
https://allpoetry.com/A-Dead-Rose (https://allpoetry.com/A-Dead-Rose)
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29 Jul 2021
Assurances by Walt Whitman | Pause for Poetry Season 1, Episode 18
Whitman discusses the inevitabilty of death and finds peace in those assurances of the title. A hugely influential figure in American poetry and American culture, Whitman wrote mostly in free verse and much of his work addresses the ideals of humanism. Leaves of Grass, the collection from which Assurances is taken, was revised multiple times by Whitman throughout his life.
https://www.bartleby.com/142/202.html (https://www.bartleby.com/142/202.html)
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