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Lesson #108: Why Reading Classic Poetry is Important: Blake’s ‘The Sick Rose’

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INTERMEDIATE LEVEL Sharing a short poem that I memorised in my childhood: O Rose thou art sick.  The invisible worm,  That flies in the night  In the howling storm: Has found out thy bed Of crimson joy: And his dark secret love Does thy life destroy. – William Blake, ‘The Sick Rose’ (1794) Have you […]

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Lesson #101: Seasonal words from British poet John Keats

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October is here! A beautiful, transformative season, as described by 19th-century poet John Keats: ‘Seasons of mist and mellow fruitfulness,Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun;Conspiring with him how to load and blessWith fruit the vines that round the thatch-eves run;To bend with apples the moss’d cottage-trees,And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core…’ –

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