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S10E4: "Surgeons must be very careful" by Emily Dickinson
S10E4: "Surgeons must be very careful" by Emily Dickinson
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8 minutes
Released:
Dec 12, 2022
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Podcast episode
Description
In this tenth season of The Well Read Poem podcast, we are reading six poems about the blessings and curses of labor. Work is a thing we both enjoy and dislike, and some professions are easier for poets to draw inspiration from than others. These poems come from different ages of literary history, and hopefully will leave the reader with a sense of what work has meant to different minds over the course of the centuries. Today's selection is "Surgeons must be very careful" by Emily Dickinson; poem begins at timestamp 6:28. Surgeons must be very careful by Emily Dickinson Surgeons must be very careful When they take the knife! Underneath their fine incisions Stirs the Culprit - Life!
Released:
Dec 12, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode
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