Poems for Company - April 22nd, 2024

Poems for Company

Apr 22 2024 | 00:29:00

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Show Notes

“Where Is My Home?”: Do you carry in your mind images of a former landscape you lived in, an extended area you called home? The first poem is spoken in the voice of Robinson Crusoe as a old man back in England, wondering if this island of his origin, the place where his life will come to a close, is truly his home. Or was he more at home when cast away on his other unnamed, totally remote island? Elizabeth Bishop, “Crusoe in England,” from The Complete Poems 1927-1979 (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1979, 1983). Our second poem depicts Irish expatriates in...

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