Episode 2: Emily Dickinson, Tell all the truth
Poetry For All
00:00
What Is Poetica?
The poem is a kind of explanation of the lightning. When you think about how you explain lightning, what you end up doing is falling into poetic devices. We always need to be gradually told the truth because it's so dazzling. And we are so infirm in our perceptions that this is a position we're in our whole lives.
Transcript
Play full episode
