This podcast has been created specifically for English learners all over the world. I'd like to take you on a journey that involves you, me, and words in order for us to learn as much English as possible together. I had to learn English many years ago, so I know what it's like to sit in a corner, afraid, ashamed, and nervous to say something in English because you're terrified of making a mistake and being embarrassed. So you can improve your English while you listening, I give literature a voice by podcasting recordings of classic poems from the past. My library is meant to be a resource for everyone who enjoys reading and listening great stories. It's all about the listening for me, and how hearing poetry can make it more accessible while also amplifying its emotional impact.https://anchor.fm/daydreamer-3/subscribehttps://www.buymeacoffee.com/a.a.bhttps://anchor.fm/daydreamer4
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This podcast has been created specifically for English learners all over the world. I'd like to take you on a journey that involves you, me, and words in order for us to learn as much English as possible together. I had to learn English many years ago, so I know what it's like to sit in a corner, afraid, ashamed, and nervous to say something in English because you're terrified of making a mistake and being embarrassed. So you can improve your English while you listening, I give literature a voice by podcasting recordings of classic poems from the past. My library is meant to be a resource for everyone who enjoys reading and listening great stories. It's all about the listening for me, and how hearing poetry can make it more accessible while also amplifying its emotional impact.https://anchor.fm/daydreamer-3/subscribehttps://www.buymeacoffee.com/a.a.bhttps://anchor.fm/daydreamer4
Jane Hirshfield is the author of nine collections of poetry, includingThe Beauty: Poems (Alfred A. Knopf, 2015), which was long listed for the National Book Award. She served as a Chancellorof the Academy of American Poets from 2012 to 2017. This poem strikes as both pre-cataclysmic and hopeful. What a reader finds in a poem is often a mirror, both of the person who is looking and listening and of the particular weather of that particular moment of listening. The poem is, without question, dark: It imagines the judgment of us, of this time, that would come from those who live in a future made by our failures. But it’s also a poem trying to undo its own need to exist. The repetition, over and over of “Let them not say”… the poem’s hope lives in that phrase, midway as it is between prayer and command. If you can still say “Let them not say,” the future is still malleable. The poem also holds a certain tenderness toward our human frailty. We like to be warm. We like to read at night. We like to praise.
Improve your English by lending an ear
This podcast has been created specifically for English learners all over the world. I'd like to take you on a journey that involves you, me, and words in order for us to learn as much English as possible together. I had to learn English many years ago, so I know what it's like to sit in a corner, afraid, ashamed, and nervous to say something in English because you're terrified of making a mistake and being embarrassed. So you can improve your English while you listening, I give literature a voice by podcasting recordings of classic poems from the past. My library is meant to be a resource for everyone who enjoys reading and listening great stories. It's all about the listening for me, and how hearing poetry can make it more accessible while also amplifying its emotional impact.https://anchor.fm/daydreamer-3/subscribehttps://www.buymeacoffee.com/a.a.bhttps://anchor.fm/daydreamer4
