We began this afternoon with Shakespeare’s sonnet 94: ‘They that have power to hurt and will do none’, which led to a long and lively discussion about the condemnation of those who fall from grace as opposed to those who were permanently flawed. We spent less time on another sonnet: Neil Powell’s ‘1989’. This delighted us without getting us into ethics. Jane Cooper’s ‘Rent’ took a while to open up but was much enjoyed. Wallace Stevens’s ‘On the Manner of Addressing Clouds’ provoked more in-depth discussion of the compact form, while Tennyson’s ‘The Eagle’ provided majestic images to end our lively meeting.
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