"A Song For Rising" by Edgar Bowers
Published September 19th, 2022
Some of the topics covered in this episode include:
-What verse is
-What this thing that we call meter is
-Poetry is like crack
-Why make time to rhyme?
-Edgar Bowers, perfect man of arts and letters
-I know I am, but what are you?
-Pantheism!
-Psych, no pantheism.
-Confronting existence between the voids of birth and death
-Waking up is a weird thing that happens
The text of today's poem:
A Song For Rising
My life is mine to have well or to lose.
I struggle to conceive, not who I am,
but, in the constant end that I must choose,
the being that permits me to its sum.
Even by that attempt I must profane
the certain no pretense of mine can change,
from which each hopeful lie departs in vain.
I am the brief departure lies derange.
So here I am at last, and you are there,
the same as you have always been,
the true, the final and the necessary care.
All that I am and hope to be is you.
But why you are or why I am or why
I think to ask I will no longer guess.
The manifest dilemma that was I
confronted you between its nothingness.
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List of the most common metrical feet:
Iamb: weak-STRONG (u /)
Trochee: STRONG-weak (/ u)
Anapest: weak-weak-STRONG (u u /)
Amphibrach: weak-STRONG-weak (u / u)
Dactyl: STRONG-weak-weak (/ u u)
Cretic: STRONG-weak-STRONG (/ u /)
Pyrrhic: weak-weak (u u)
Spondee: STRONG-STRONG (/ /)