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Bianca Stone Reads Franz Wright

The New Yorker: Poetry

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Analyzing Franz Wright's 'Learning to read'

An in-depth exploration of Franz Wright's poem 'Learning to read', focusing on its themes of loneliness, learning, and the complex relationship between the speaker and their stepfather. The speakers also discuss the irony of using poems as a means of communication and compare Franz Wright's writing style to that of his father, James Wright.

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