#Ovid&039;s Metamorphoses
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I Saw Three Swans: Baudelaire, Rilke, Oswald
I Saw Three Swans: Baudelaire, Rilke, Oswald
A friend of mine recently asked what I thought of Alice Oswald’s poem, ‘Swan’ – in fact, what did I think it meant. It appears in her 2016 collection Falling Awake (Cape Poetry). I’m not sure I can give a direct answer to her direct question, but it linked up with two other swan poems I have read recently. Baudelaire’s poem appears in The Flowers of Evil and I have been re-reading a couple of…
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