Topics discussed in this episode include:
-Quotable comebacks
-My listeners down under!
-Everyone should know about Ern Malley
-A hearty thanks to my very first patrons!
-You too can nourish the fiscal integrity of the show here.
-Candidate for American poetry GOAT, Edwin Arlington Robinson.
-Adventurer, soldier, and fairy god-fan Kermit Roosevelt.
-The Tom Bradys of the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry
-Killer Robinson poems Aunt Imogen, Rembrandt to Rembrandt, and Lancelot.
-The Troubadour effect
-Red vines, but not the sweet kind
-There's always a woman.
-A dead woman.
-A wailing demon-lover.
-Heeeeeerrree's Milton! (Take a shot)
-The suicidal tendencies of a pantheistic God
-Paul Valery's "Sketch of A Serpent."
-"This creation thing is really killing me"-- God
-"This Jesus thing is really killing me" -- God
-Dante's "Contra Passo"
-The Golem
-Luke has the gall
-The Galenic theory of humors
-Orpheus and Eurydice in reverse
-But is it an evil poem?
Text of the poem here.
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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 (/ /)