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The Poetry Fix

Erika Kyba

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4:34

Comus: The Rank Vapors of this Sin-Worn Mold

The Poetry Fix ·

2025/11/20

Today, Erika Kyba introduces Milton's "Comus," a purported morality masque which is perhaps not what it seems to be. Alexandra Comus narrates the part of the Attendant Spirit.

7:23

Sic Transit Gloria Mundi: Accept this "Bonnie Doon"

The Poetry Fix ·

2025/11/13

Today, Erika Kyba reads through the end of "Sic Transit Gloria Mundi," by Emily Dickinson. We begin to tie together the themes of moral bankruptcy, surface versus substance, and modernity, served with a slice of devilry.

4:31

Sic Transit Gloria Mundi: Insolvency, Sublime!

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2025/11/06

Today, Erika Kyba reads "Sic Transit Gloria Mundi," by Emily Dickinson, a witty societal critique dashed with a commentary how certain astronomical discoveries have altered the way we understand and behave towards the universe around us.

4:31

The Abyss: Above, Below, On Every Side

The Poetry Fix ·

2025/10/30

Today, Erika Kyba reads "The Abyss," by Baudelaire, and attempts to explore the poet's terror of the infinite.

4:20

The Benefactors: The Pinch of Pain and Fear

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2025/10/23

Today, Erika Kyba reads "The Benefactors" by Rudyard Kipling. Kipling mediates on how all innovation springs from the "pinch of pain and fear" that drives man.

4:31

Adam's Curse: As Weary-Hearted as that Hollow Moon

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2025/10/16

Today, Erika Kyba reads "Adam's Curse" by William Butler Yeats. Yeats muses on how all beautiful and lovely things require labor...and how this laboring after the beautiful has become an "idle trade" in the hollow age of modernity.

4:31

The Boston Evening Transcript: Who Are You, When...

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2025/10/09

Today, Erika Kyba reads "The Boston Evening Transcript," by T. S. Eliot. Much in the same vein as Henry David Thoreau, Eliot mediates on our constant obsession with the news, and what that does to the human person.

4:32

Safe in Their Alabaster Chambers: A Meditation on Legacy

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2025/10/02

Today, Erika Kyba reads "Safe in Their Alabaster Chambers," by Emily Dickinson. In this poem, Dickinson plays with the image of a tomb acting as a lamp, and she meditates on legacy, death, and history.

4:31

As Kingfishers Catch Fire: Lovely in Eyes not His

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2025/09/25

Today, Erika Kyba reads "As Kingfishers Catch Fire," by Gerard Manley Hopkins. In this poem, Hopkins explores the natural image of kingfishers and dragonflies reflecting the sun's light, and he uses it to portray how God's glory shines forth in every single person, with all their particularities.

4:31

On Time: The Temporal and the Eternal

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2025/09/18

Today, Erika Kyba reads John Milton's "On Time." This is a poem that echoes the themes John Donne's "Holy Sonnet X," asserting the triumph of believers over death and temporal decay.

4:30

Demain dès l'aube: Facing the Unspeakable

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2025/09/11

Today, Erika Kyba reads Victor Hugo's "Demain dès l'aube," a poem about a man who has delayed facing his grief for far too long.

4:35

America: Perennial With the Earth

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2025/09/04

Today, Erika Kyba reads Walt Whitman's "America," a distillation of the patriotic spirit that infuses much of Whitman's poetic corpus.

4:18

Break, Break, Break: When Tragedy Paralyzes

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2025/08/28

Today, Erika Kyba reads Tennyson's "Break, Break, Break," an intimate portrait of loss and grief. The poem conveys the deadening effect of great sorrow, as the poet observes life going on for others while remaining paralyzed by tragedy.

4:35

The Ballad of Blasphemous Bill: The Dark Twist

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2025/08/22

Today, Erika Kyba reads the eerie conclusion of Robert W. Service's "The Ballad of Blasphemous Bill," and proposes some possible interpretations to its mysterious ending.

4:30

The Ballad of Blasphemous Bill: The Grateful Dead

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2025/08/15

Today, Erika Kyba reads an excerpt from Robert W. Service's "The Ballad of Blasphemous Bill," a poet's take on the Grateful Dead archetype.

4:19

Aunt Helen: A Damning Silence

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2025/08/08

Today, Erika Kyba reads T. S. Eliot's "Aunt Helen," a dark meditation on the futility of earthly affairs, and the danger of leaving behind an empty legacy.

4:30

Holy Sonnet X: Death be not Proud

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2025/06/27

Today, Erika Kyba reads John Donne's glorious vaunt against death itself: Holy Sonnet X.

4:33

At a Solemn Music: Milton vs the Puritans

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2025/06/20

Today, Erika Kyba reads John Milton's "At a Solemn Music," which subtly engages with Puritan arguments portraying music as evil. Instead, Milton extols song as something that has the power to sanctify.

4:34

Down by the Salley Gardens: The One that Got Away

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2025/06/13

Today, Erika Kyba reads W. B. Yeats's "Down by the Salley Gardens," a wistful meditation on lost love and innocence.

4:14

The Good-Morrow: Love so Alike

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2025/06/06

Today, Erika Kyba reads John Donne's "The Good-Morrow," which meditates on the unity of lovers, as well as the virtues needed for romantic love to endure.

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