Romantic #2: The Castaway by William Cowper

The Troubadour Podcast

English - May 15, 2018 04:00 - 40 minutes - 18.6 MB
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Today I'll be reading and discussing William Cowper's last poem "The Castaway."

The poem is about a real life incident of a man who fell overboard, but in the hands of a great poet this accident of life becomes a powerful and tragic universal metaphor.

Do you see the secret message in the poem? Follow along and let's find it.