After a long break owing to a combination of unfortunate circumstances we assembled again with a great variety of poems to discuss. Robert Browning's 'Meeting at Night' provoked more debate than its 2 short stanzas might have suggested. Thomas Hardy's 'The Walk' was another 2 stanza poem in which we found an intense play of meanings. 'Office Friendships' by the Liverpool poet Gavin Ewart was both fun and a perceptive insight into modern life. John Keats's Petrarchan sonnet 'To My Brothers' was a good deal more human and realistic than its classical form might have suggested, and we all enjoyed revisiting Hilaire Belloc's 'Tarantella' with its fascinating rhythms and rhymes.
Our next meeting is on October 6th for more free choice.
