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Quotations is about words, written and spoken throughout history. Words speak to us through our eyes and our ears. They enrich our lives, allow us to communicate thoughts to others, and sometimes, last for generations. This podcast explores not only the words, but the speaker, author, figure, or character who originated them. To whom were they said or written? What was their intended effect and on whom? What was the originator thinking? Find out each episode and we discover new quotations, some familiar, some not!
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Wednesday Oct 27, 2021
Wednesday Oct 27, 2021
The death of a child is brutally hard on us all. Poet John Crowe Ransom writes of just such a hardship in beautiful rhyming lines in Bells for John Whiteside's Daughter. He captures, brilliantly, the youthful excitement, wonder, and imagination of a young girl and her death before her time. He uses beautiful, captivating imagery to which we can all relate. This week, we explore his poem in this, our 4th explication.
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