About this episode

In this episode, Erika Kyba explores Wordsworth's poem 'The Tables Turned' and its call to embrace nature over books.

Perhaps you've encountered YouTube videos appearing on your feed to tell you to get off YouTube. In today’s episode of The Poetry Fix, join Erika Kyba to encounter the poetic version of this phenomenon in Wordsworth's "The Tables Turned." Wordsworth seems to exhort the student to do away with his books, seeking nature instead...but is this all that our poet has to say?

People in this episode

Host: Erika Kyba

Topics covered

• poetry
• nature
• Wordsworth
• education
• literature

Keywords

• Wordsworth
• poetry
• nature
• education
• literature
• The Tables Turned

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Wordsworth's "The Tables Turned"

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