Literary Devices.: Recent Episodes
Kalila M Sample
Join us at we examine the power of poetry and attempt to answer the question- what has poetry every really done for us?
I sat down with two of my more poetic friends to discuss the importance of poetry in their lives. Thanks to Jamie Evans & Cat Gullotta.
There is immense power in being able to imagine an experience outside of our own. How does poetry aid in that objective? Features an excerpt from Anne Winter's The Mill Race.
On this episode, we discuss the shift in utility of poetry over time, and run through a brief history of poetry as a media device. Featured is an excerpt from Walt Whitman's Song of Myself.
Dive deep with me into understanding what makes poetry so important as a social function- and why poets have been voices for the revolution for years. Includes excerpts from Percy Bysshe Shelley's Men of England and Frances Ellen Watkins Harper's Bury Me in a Free Land.