Our teacher Pato Chujman tld us to look up information about the writer of the poem “Passion” by Katlhleen Raine.

• Born 14 June 1908 – 6 July 2003
• Kathleen Raine was born at Ilford, Essex (now part of London)
• British poet, critic, and scholar writing. A visionary poet whose work probed the intersection of science and mysticism, Raine bridged elements of Jungian psychology and neo-Platonism in her work
• Interested in various forms of spirituality, most prominently Platonism and Neoplatonism, she was a founder member of the Temenos Academy.
• Raine received the Queen’s Gold Medal for Literature, the Harriet Monroe Memorial Prize, the Oscar Blumenthal Prize, the Chapelbrook Award, the Cholmondeley Award, and the Smith Literary Award and a Commandeur de L’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.
• Poetry was deeply ingrained in the daily lives of her maternal ancestors. From her father she gained a love of etymology and the literary aspect of poetry. She wrote that for her poetry was “not something invented but given…Brought up as I was in a household where poets were so regarded it naturally became my ambition to be a poet”
• Her first book of poetry, Stone And Flower (1943). Living in Time (1946). The Pythoness in 1949. Her classics include Who Are We?,  the two-volume Blake and Tradition. 

This is the analysis of the poem we’ve been reading in Literautre class, called “Passion” by Kathleen Raine

During our Literature class we were assigned to analyse a poem of our choice written by Kathleen Raine. We worke in groups and I worked with Alina Claps and Jose Tasca.