Soundtrack to this episode

The original 10 Poems I Like

"New Advances in Quitting Poetry" on SLEERICKETS

"This is not Exactly What I Mean" on the SLEERICKETS Secret Show
My Dante essay at Voegelin View!

Poems discussed in this episode:

"An Irish Airman Foresees His Death" by W.B. Yeats

"Miriam Tazewell" by John Crowe Ransom

"I Will Put Chaos Into Fourteen Lines" by Edna St. Vincent Millay

"November Cotton Flower" by Jean Toomer

"On Being Human" by C.S. Lewis

"The Fall of Rome" by W.H. Auden

"The Fish" by Elizabeth Bishop

"Our Lady of Walsingham" (from "A Quaker Graveyard in Nantucket") by Robert Lowell

"St. Judas" by James Wright

"Orthodox Christmas Eve" by Gail White

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Lovely introspection and sensitive reflection (Alice): Poetry Says
The landscape of Ohioan poetry (Jeremy): Poetry Spotlight

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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 (/ /)