Podcasts by Poetry Sessions
This is a podcast on poetry. It will a have a wide range of poems including a variety of moods, themes and styles.
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Aunt Jennifer's Tigers by Andrienne Rich from 2021-03-18T17:21:57
The poem relates the story of a woman who lives in constant fear from her husband. She longs for a life of freedom and fearlessness but becomes a victim of male dominance. She is able to express he...
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A Roadside Stand by Robert Frost from 2021-03-18T16:54:34
In the poem the poet presents a sad and gloomy picture of the poor and deprived people living in the countryside. He draws a contrast between these people and those living in the city. He is upset ...
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A Thing of Beauty by John Keats from 2021-03-12T07:24:01
The poet says that beautiful things are sources of eternal joy. Otherwise Life is full of sadness and gloom. It is the beautiful things like the sun, the moon, trees, flowers and other forms of nat...
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Keeping Quiet by Pablo Neruda from 2021-03-05T17:00:02
In the poem the poet pleads with the human beings to keep quiet and reflect on their mindless acts that are leading them to self destruction. He is particularly concerned about man's constant quest...
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An Elementary School Classroom in a Slum by Stephen Spender from 2021-03-05T16:08:26
The poem reveals a gloomy picture of the children in a slum school. It brings the reader's attention to the effects of poverty on their health, education and life. The poet exhorts the authorities ...
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My Mother at Sixty-six by Kamala Das from 2021-02-28T05:23:54
The poem depicts the pain that the poet undergoes at the separation from her ageing mother. The poet is going to catch a flight from Cochin and the mother accompanies her to the airport. Looking at...
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For Anne Gregory by W B Yeats from 2021-02-01T16:00:33
The poem is in the form of a conversation between the poet and a young woman. The poet conveys to the lady that a young man would not be attracted towards her inner beauty. He would be interested o...
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The Tale of Custard the Dragon by Ogden Nash from 2021-01-31T16:33:03
The Tale of Custard the Dragon is a humorous poem in the form of a ballad. A ballad is a poem that tells a story. And this poem tells a humorous story. Belinda lived with four other animals, a dog,...
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Fog by Carl Sandburg from 2021-01-14T17:34:15
Fog is one of the best known poems of Carl Sandburg. In this short poem the poet reveals the features of Fog by comparing it with a cat. The cat has been used as a metaphor. The poet depicts the pa...
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The Trees by Adrienne Rich from 2021-01-11T16:06:03
Should the trees live in the forest or stay in the houses of the human beings? Should their parts just become the decorative pieces for humans? It is this conflict of man with nature that has been ...
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Animals by Walt Whitman from 2021-01-11T09:29:01
In this poem the poet tries to reveal the difference between animals and human beings. Animals are simple and self-contained. They accept you as you are. Unlike humans they are always happy and sat...
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Amanda by Robin Klein from 2021-01-07T16:31:29
There is always a gap between what a child feels and and what the parents expect of her. It is true that a child should become disciplined. But should the parents seek to instruct and control the c...
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The Ball Poem by John Berryman from 2021-01-06T17:15:01
A boy is upset because he has lost his ball. The ball is very precious for him. It can't be bought by money. But then he also learns an important lesson of his life through this loss: How to cope w...
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How to Tell Wild Animals by Carolyn Wells from 2021-01-06T16:35:12
It is a humorous poem in which the poet suggests some dangerous ways to identify the wild animals. The poem has been prescribed for class X by Central Board of Secondary Education in India. Please ...
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A Tiger in the Zoo from 2021-01-03T17:55:23
The poem depicts the condition of a tiger in the concrete cell of a zoo. The poem can be divided into three parts. In the first stanza the poet shows the helplessness of the tiger in the cage of a ...
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Father to Son by Elizabeth Jennings from 2020-12-20T17:41:55
The poem reveals the grief and sorrow that a father suffers due to a strained relationship with his son. The father is unable to understand the changes that he observes in his son. There is a lack ...
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Childhood by Markus Natten from 2020-12-17T17:58:05
The poet is trying to explore when exactly he became an adult. Did he become an adult when he reached eleven or when his understanding about the world grew? Probably it is not the physical growth s...
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A Photograph by Shirley Toulson from 2020-12-15T17:50:53
A photograph is the source of nostalgia in the poem both for the speaker and her mother. They both go down their memory lane by looking at the photograph. Later the speaker, who is also the daughte...
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The Voice of the Rain by Walt Whitman from 2020-12-15T17:00:47
The poem begins with a question, 'And who art thou?' In response to this the rain answers who she is, what is her role and how she nurtures Life on the Earth. Only a poet can make you listen to the...
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The Laburnum Top by Ted Hughes from 2020-12-14T10:19:10
The poet has captured the relation of birds with a tree beautifully in the poem. Before the goldfinch comes the Laburnum tree is silent. After its arrival the tree becomes 'the engine of their fami...
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Birthdays by A K Ramanujan from 2020-12-08T09:04:51
It gives the poet's perspectives on birthdays, birth, death etc
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Fire and Ice by Robert Frost from 2020-11-29T07:27:13
The poem reveals the gloomy mood of the poet.
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Dust of Snow by Robert Frost from 2020-11-29T07:05:34
This short poem by Robert Frost draws the reader's attention to how even a minor incident can bring about a major change in Life. It emphasizes the importance of positive thinking.
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The Patriot by Nissim Ezekiel from 2020-11-17T06:51:12
It is a poem infused with humour and sarcasm.
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Home: Arundhathi Subramaniam from 2020-11-02T09:44:48
It's a poem that reveals a unique relationship one may have with Home.
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Obituary by A K Ramanujan from 2020-10-25T18:30:22
This poem was composed by the poet on the death of his father.
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A complaint by William Wordsworth from 2020-10-24T11:20:35
In this poem the poet complains against someone's love for him. He begins with the following: 'There is a change....'
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