Episode 54: Carl Phillips, To Autumn
Poetry For All
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The Third Thing in This Poem
Carl Safina: I'm struck by the necessity in this poem of not being satisfied with a single thing. It's as if we're, again, weighing options, leading toward what may be a decision, but finally isn't. He says Keats's supposition that the most significant tone for a lyric poem is the tone of melancholy. Safina: So I feel Carl really deliberately working that same kind of formula to be hidden and to adore what's hidden.
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