The Poetry Fix

Erika Kyba
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    The Oak and the Reed: Let us See the End

    In today’s episode of The Poetry Fix, join Erika Kyba for a bilingual episode. She reads La Fontaine's "The Oak and the Reed" in French and English, exploring a poem-parable that discusses the fall of the mighty and the survival of the humble.

    5 min

  2. 20 juin

    I Taste a Liquour Never Brewed: Inebriate of Air

    In today’s episode of The Poetry Fix, join Erika Kyba to read Emily Dickinson's "I Taste a Liquour Never Brewed." It's a poem about getting drunk on the beauty of the universe...which the poet believes has fundamental, eschatological importance.

    4 min

  3. 13 juin

    How Many Nights: Who’s Afraid of the Dark?

    In today’s episode of The Poetry Fix, join Erika Kyba to read Galway Kinnell's "How Many Nights," the work of a modern existentialist poet. We all remember our childhood fears of the dark, and how they dissipated with the sunrise. What are we to do, though, with a more adult, existential version of this experience?

    5 min

  4. 6 juin

    Nobody Knows This Little Rose: Taken From the Ways

    In today’s episode of The Poetry Fix, join Erika Kyba to read Emily Dickinson's "Nobody Knows This Little Rose." It's a deceptively simple little poem, in which the poet wrestles with one of the most profound human tragedies.

    5 min
  5. The Poetry Fix: Comus, Part Seven

    30 mai

    The Poetry Fix: Comus, Part Seven

    In today’s episode of The Poetry Fix, join Erika Kyba to read the continuation of Comus and the Lady's first encounter. We have already seen that our heroine has a very high view of her own powers of virtue and discernment...but her naiveté is exposed in this episode, as she blindly puts her faith in the flattering Comus.

    4 min

  6. 30 mai

    Comus: Square my Trial to my Proportioned Strength

    In today’s episode of The Poetry Fix, join Erika Kyba to read the continuation of Comus and the Lady's first encounter. We have already seen that our heroine has a very high view of her own powers of virtue and discernment...but her naiveté is exposed in this episode, as she blindly puts her faith in the flattering Comus.

    4 min

  7. 23 mai

    Comus: Such Divine Enchanting Ravishment

    In today’s episode of The Poetry Fix, join Erika Kyba to read the excerpt of Milton's "Comus" in which Comus and the Lady are united for the first time. Erika finds that Comus's reaction to the Lady's song parallels one of Milton's most famous scenes in Paradise Lost...

    5 min

  8. 16 mai

    Comus: The Lady Enters

    In today’s episode of The Poetry Fix, join Erika Kyba in the journey through Milton’s Comus as the leading lady makes her first appearance. The lady presents herself as a courageous paragon of virtue, but the poet opens up her view of morality to some questions.

    5 min
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  • Création
    Erika Kyba
  • Années d’activité
    2024 - 2026
  • Épisodes
    92
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