Text of poem here
Mea culpa: When I said "fearful," I meant "fearsome"
L'esprit d'escalier: "Above the boneyard burn its golden eyes" has a similar euphony to Donne's famous: "A bracelet of bright hair about the bone."
Topics discussed in this episode include:
-Anthony Hecht's new Collected Poems, edited by Philip Hoy
-David Yezzi's new biography of Hecht, Late Romance
-The caprice of the canon
-Frost, Hawthorne, and Puritan allegory
-"Dramatic" line breaks
-Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath
-The diction of the male gaze
-The Sleerickets episodes (Part 1 and Part 2) with myself, Matthew, and Alice on Hecht's essay, "The Pathetic Fallacy."
-Sextod
-Sin as the mother of death (see Paradise Lost)
-Sex as prayer
-The connotations of magnesium
-Leda and the Swan by W.B. Yeats
-A Barred Owl by Richard Wilbur
-The symbology of owls
-What fell beast is this?
-Edificiary chakras
-Hughes the murderous crow
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My favorite poetry podcasts for:
Sharp thoughts and cutting truths (Matthew): Sleerickets
Lovely introspection and sensitive reflection (Alice): Poetry Says
The landscape of Ohioan poetry (Jeremy): Poetry Spotlight
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 (/ /)
