Topics discussed in this episode include:
-A sheepish apology
-The excellence of Eratosphere
-Rhythm vs. Meter, and respective variations
-Metrical stress vs. speech stress
-The charm and well-adjustedness of Janet Lewis
-Organized religion vs. natural spirituality
-Biblical ambience = anaphora and parallelism
-Amphibrachs!
-Versecraft feat. Migos and Lizzo
-Spondees and Pyrrhics!
-And Dactyls! Collect 'em all.
-The symbology of the daisy, no Gatsby required.
-The Legend of the Headless Iamb
-Hemistichs!
-Bodily decay is comforting, guys. No no hear me out...
-Accurate diction, or noble fiction?
-Automatic, supersonic, Miltonic anapests...
-God as The Pale Man from Pan's Labyrinth
-We are built for this world, not the next.
-I agree, says Carl Dennis
-The Earth is our bed, and we must lie in it.
Text of poem:
Country Burial
After the words of the magnificence and doom,
after the vision of the splendor and the fear,
they go out slowly into the flowery meadow,
carrying the casket and lay it on the earth
by the grave’s edge. The daisies bend and straighten
under the trailing skirts, and serious faces
look with faint relief, and briefly smile.
Into this earth the flesh and wood shall melt
and under these familiar common flowers
flow through the earth they both have understood
by sight and touch and daily sustenance.
And this is comforting:
For heaven is a blinding radiance where
leaves are no longer green, nor water wet,
milk white, soot black, nor winter weather cold,
and the eyeless vision of the Almighty Face
brings numbness to the untranslatable heart.
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Supported in part by The Ohio Poetry Association
Art by David Anthony Klug
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 (/ /)
