FlexiLingo
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This audio poem is a production of poetryfoundation.org.
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They're bronze panels.
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B2 · Upper-intermediate
Comfortable if you already follow TV news
- 78% of the words are B1 or easier.
- 95 words a minute: slow, clear speech.
- 29 harder words (B2 and up) in the whole episode.
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This audio poem is a production of poetryfoundation.org. The doors of the Church of San Zino are set with panels of biblical scenes. They're bronze panels. They have an exceptional moving and many people feel transformative value.
And what this poem does is it takes the perspective of someone who's come to these doors, and he begins to imagine himself as being a part of these different biblical scenes. He imagines as if he himself is John the Baptist and subject to the attentions of Salome, The Doors, The Church of Sanzano, Verona.
The Doors were oak, massive, their panels bronze, the twelfth century, a good century for fear, he thought, standing there before them. doors of the oldest stories, parts of which had always been his life, his many ancient lives.
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