S1 Ep 21 – Best Ever Poem for Dark Times

Worth a Minute

15-02-2023 • 1 min

It may seem odd that Mike has a ‘best ever poem for dark times', but his argument is that if a poem captures the intensity of emotions and conveys those feelings in a striking manner, it can impel us to reflect in a new way on our circumstances.

The achievement of Gerard Manley Hopkins in ‘No worst, there is none.’ is to explore and probe - within the fourteen-line constraints of a sonnet - the depths of human depression through language, sounds and imagery.

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