A combined reading and analysis of Hopkins’s Spring and Fall, exploring its themes of childhood innocence, the awareness of mortality, and Hopkins’s distinctive sprung rhythm.
A combined reading and analysis of Hardy’s The Darkling Thrush, examining its themes of hope and despair at the turn of the century, and the unexpected song of the thrush in a winter landscape.
An illustrated reading of Keats’s To Autumn, accompanied by images of the harvest season that bring the poem’s rich sensory imagery to life.
An analysis of Keats’s To Autumn, examining its themes of seasonal beauty, harvest abundance, and the acceptance of mortality.
A combined reading and analysis of Keats’s To Autumn, exploring its rich sensory imagery of the harvest season and its meditation on beauty, transience, and mortality.
An illustrated reading of Keats’s Ode to a Nightingale, accompanied by images evoking the poem’s themes of beauty, nature, and mortality.
A combined reading and analysis of Keats’s Ode to a Nightingale, exploring its themes of beauty, mortality, and the tension between escapism and the reality of human suffering.