105 episodes
Fireside Poems Fireside Poems
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- Society & Culture
Each week Dr. J shares a poem from one of the nineteenth-century American Fireside Poets, reading it aloud and commenting on it to enhance the listener’s enjoyment of the poem.
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The Wedding Day
Priscilla Mullins and John Alden wed, symbolizing the continuity of life in a true pastoral image.
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Telling the Bees
A young man learns of the death of his beloved when he comes upon a strange ceremony.
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The Revenge of Rain-in-the-Face
The poet recounts an apocryphal story of the Battle of the Little Bighorn and then asks "whose was theright and the wrong?"
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Helen of Tyre
The poet asks our sympathy for a woman the world considers unworthy of sympathy.