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

-Inferno XIII 

-Dante's "Contra Passo"

-Inferno III 

-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 (/ /)