We haven't had the most auspicious start to the new decade. This episode we share two poems that might offer, respectively, a challenge to critical awareness and a gentle exercise in empathy.

Featuring "Porphyria's Lover" by Robert Browning and "Dulce et Decorum Est" by Wilfred Owen.

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Image reproduced from "Poems by Wilfred Owen," 1920, sourced from wikimedia.org and in the public domain.