Alexander Schmid Podcast

In this episode of Night School, Mr. Wesley Schantz and I consider Emily Brontë's "No Coward Soul Is Mine", and Emily Dickinson's "Some keep the Sabbath going to Church – (236)" and "I dwell in Possibility – (466)". We specifically consider (a) the relationship between Dickinson and Brontë's poetry in theme and structure ; (b) the ways in which Dickinson's view of religion may have clashed with norms and been rationalist in its approach, and (c) what the process of building a poem or "house of possibility" entails and brings out in or requires of a reader.

In this lecture, we (a) meet the old and wise Nestor and his son Peisistratos In Pylos, (b) venture forward to the land of sadness, Sparta, and meet Menelaos and the beautiful and observant Helen of Argos, and (c) learn the cost of experience and wisdom!

In this lecture, we consider (a) the entrance of Beatrice and exit of Virgil in the story, (b) the end of the Biblical procession, and (c) a dramatic representation of the corruption of the Church throughout time.

In this episode of Night School, Mr. Wesley Schantz and I consider Emily Dickinson's "All overgrown by cunning moss," and recite Emily Brontë's "No Coward Soul Is Mine". We specifically consider (a) the story untying the poem about the death of Charlotte Brontë; (b) the ways poems and perceptions of poets evolve over time, and (c) we recite the poem by Emily Brontë which Emily Dickinson requested be read at her funeral.

In this lecture, we discuss (a) Athene's strategy for helping Odysseus and Telemachos, (b) Zeus' proclamation that man's own "wild recklessness" is often the cause of his own suffering, and (c) observed Telemachos' first disastrous public speech in assembly.

In this lecture, we consider (a) the Terrace of Lust and its relation to chastity, (b) Terrestrial Paradise and how the end is just the beginning, and (c) what is the meaning of the Biblical Procession in Eden/Terrestrial Paradise?

In this lecture, we consider (a) the fate of Agamemnon, (b) the dramatis personae of Homer's "Odyssey", and (c) the theme of "nothing is as it seems".

In this lecture, we consider (a) the terraces of Sloth, Avarice (and prodigality), and gluttony. Specifically, we consider how what sloth, avarice, and gluttony cost, (b) how love poetry may be tied to self-indulgence, and (c) the potential costs of sensual delights to lifetime achievement.

In this episode of Night School, Mr. Wes Schantz and I consider Emily Dickinson's "Surgeons must be very careful" and ""Faith" is fine invention". We specifically consider (a) the length and form of the short poems, (b) how a poem is a small manifestation of articulated being, and (c) how "faith" and faith differ in the context of the second poem.

In this third podcast on the 4th volume in the Harry Potter series, "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire," Ms. Sarah Miller, Mr. Wes Schantz, and I discuss (a) the Unforgivable Curses and what is so unforgivable about them; (b) number symbolism surrounding threes and fours (trinities and quaternaries) in the text, and (c) what happens once one's view of the world now must reflect the darkness therein?