Episode 15: Fears and Fire

Poems: When I Have Fears That I May Cease to Be — John Keats

& Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night — Dylan Thomas

There’s a shadow that walks beside us all — the quiet reminder that our time is finite. Some poets choose to face that truth with trembling hands; others meet it with clenched fists and flame in their hearts.

In this episode, Fears and Fire, two voices speak across the centuries.

John Keats, the doomed Romantic, writes of life’s unfinished symphony — the love he may never know, the words he may never write. His verse is fragile, luminous, resigned.

Then, from the dark hills of Wales, Dylan Thomas answers.

His poem is no lament, but a roar — a plea for passion, for resistance, for the fire that refuses to fade quietly into night.

Together, they form a conversation between fear and defiance… the stillness before the storm, and the storm itself.

🎧 Listen now on A Voice Like This — where poetry finds its voice.