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Topics mentioned in this episode include:

-The antitheses of Emily Dickinson

-White = Infinity in 19th century American Lit.

-Fascicles!

-The Modernist, Feminist, and Queer claims on Emily

-Magnificent and trending writer Virginia Woolf

-A secular Memento Mori

-Ballad Stanzas and Common Meter

-The Amazing Grace phenomenon

-Why Ballad Stanzas sound so ballad-y

-Slant rhyme revisited

-Matthew's podcast Sleerickets! 

-Why Big Pun and Robert Pinsky use slant rhyme differently.

-Slant rhyme modulation!

-How to stack ambiguities like a pro (it involves big puns)

-Original sin and the birth of Death

-Did you just gender my soul???

-God as Plural: Jewish and Christian takes

-The morbidity of Keats and Dickinson, compared

-The Aghori 

-One more pun as a nightcap before eternal sleep

Text of poem:

I read my sentence steadily,
Reviewed it with my eyes,
To see that I made no mistake
In its extremest clause, --

The date, and manner of the shame;
And then the pious form
That "God have mercy" on the soul
The jury voted him.

I made my soul familiar
With her extremity,
That at the last it should not be
A novel agony,

But she and Death, acquainted,
Meet tranquilly as friends,
Salute and pass without a hint --
And there the matter ends.  

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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 (/ /)

Topics discussed in this episode include: 

-Schedule change!

-My trip to England

-Romanticism

-The charm of Keats

-The tragedy of Keats

-The tragedy of Pergolesi

-Italian sonnet redux

-The creative opportunity that is rhyme

-Why this sonnet is weird

-The riddle of Keats's morbidity

-Ode To A Nightingale

-The Notorious B.I.G.

-Ode On Melancholy

-Oscar Wilde and the Aesthetic Movement

-The poet is un-poetical, unless the poet is Keats

-Keats's self awareness

-The undescribable feud, described

-On Looking Into Chapman's Homer

-The second-worst thing the Ottomans ever did

-Ubi Sunt

-The Romantic fetish for ruins

-Metrical FUBAR

-The doctrine of The Association of Ideas

-The shift from Objectivity to Subjectivity 

-Suns, seas, and shadows

Text of the poem:

 
On Seeing the Elgin Marbles  

My spirit is too weak—mortality 

Weighs heavily on me like unwilling sleep, 

And each imagined pinnacle and steep 

Of godlike hardship tells me I must die 

Like a sick eagle looking at the sky. 

Yet ’tis a gentle luxury to weep 

That I have not the cloudy winds to keep 

Fresh for the opening of the morning’s eye. 

Such dim-conceived glories of the brain 

Bring round the heart an undescribable feud; 

So do these wonders a most dizzy pain, 

That mingles Grecian grandeur with the rude 

Wasting of old time—with a billowy main— 

A sun—a shadow of a magnitude.  

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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 (/ /)

Mea culpa regarding the scansion of line 29: I should've mentioned that you could also very reasonably interpret this as an acephalous iambic line. My bad. I like the trochees better though! 

Topics discussed in this episode include: 

-Dante's Purgatorio 
-"The God of This World To His Prophet" 
-Swedish skalds Hakan Sandell and Tomas Transtromer 
-Dante's tropical vacay 
-How Virgil and Moses are alike 
-Terza Rima 
-Dante's numerical obsession/magnificence 
-Hendecasyllabics 
-The Beatific Vision 
-A pun which only works perfectly in American English 
-Rhythm vs. Meter, Stress vs. Accent 
-The Book of Isaiah 
-Parallelist verse 
-Parallelist verse graphic: https://web.cn.edu/kwheeler/documents/hebrew_poetry01.pdf 
-The influence of biblical poetry in English via the KJV 
-Robert Alter's "Pen of Iron" 
-Moliere and irony (see especially "The Misanthrope") 
-The death of the personality in heaven 
-You know I had to bring in Aquinas 
-God as Actus Purus 
-If there's life after death, there is no death 
-We desire not heaven but more earthly life 
-Bill "Mr. Steal Your Girl" Coyle slides into Beatrice's DMs 
-Marlowe and Marvell 
-Nietzsche's Eternal Recurrence 
-How much do you love your life? 

Text of poem: 

Contra Dante (Kind Of) 

Forget about the Beatific Vision. 
Not that it’s not impressive in its glory 
and worthy of a god in God’s position, 

but if I make it to Mount Purgatory 
(and yes, that’s one big “if,” I realize) 
and trudge my way up story after story 

I’ll settle in the Earthly Paradise 
located at the top, it being more, 
well, earthly, which is better in my eyes. 

Earthly perfection’s what I’m looking for: 
the world I know, more or less as I know it, 
prolonged, minus the death and pain and gore 

(hard to imagine, maybe, but read the poet 
Isaiah on the lion and the lamb). 
If I found that, there’s no way I’d outgrow it, 

even if I grew holier than I am 
(not the I AM, but I as I am now). 
Can I be honest? I don’t give a damn 

if I miss most of the celestial show 
(it will go on like clockwork whether I 
am there or not) so long as far below 

(which, from where I stand now, is still on high) 
I can sit down under an actual tree 
on actual grass beneath an actual sky 

of blue that as it drops back let me see 
the southern constellations overhead. 
That would be more than good enough for me, 

enough to make me not mind being dead. 
And if Beatrice came from above 
to take me heavenwards, I’d try instead 

to tell her she should be the one to move. 
She’d hem, she’d haw, I’d bring her flowers and rhyme, 
I’d say, “Stay here with me and be my love, 

seeing we now have world enough and time.”

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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 (/ /)

Mea culpa: I forgot to mention that the last line of the poem can also be read in the following sense: desire to LIVE and not merely to EXIST ("be" alone). In this reading, it is the body which allows the soul to actually "live." 

Topics discussed in this episode include: 

-Matthew's podcast, "Sleerickets" 
-The Dantesque pairing of this and the following episode 
-A defense of the "embrace materiality" agenda 
-"Being Human" by C.S. Lewis 
-Literary power couple Matthew and Joanna 
-Alice Allan's podcast "Poetry Says" 
-Dante's Commedia 
-The heavenly soul's desire for their body at the rapture 
-Italian (Petrarchan) sonnets 
-We're enjambin' 
-If you took a shot every time I mentioned Milton, you'd be mildly buzzed sometimes. 
-Le mot juste 
-Quoting Revelations like a Southern Gothic reverend 
-David Cronenberg's "Videodrome" 
-Aspiring beyond the cross 
-Flesh as sartorial joy 
-Anti-Buddhism 
-A sniffling desire? 
-Human touch is next to godliness 

Text of poem: 

Paradiso XIV, 63 

Even in heaven, then, there is desire: 
for resurrection in the appointed time, 
when out of blackened earth new flesh will climb 
beyond the cross of every storm-whipped spire 
into that harmony kept by the choir 
assigned each soul, whose naked pantomime 
clothes itself there in joy, like sense in rhyme, 
like lyrics in the plucking of a lyre; 

for this, but also for the body’s own 
relentless, unrepentant want—to feel 
cool water on the brow, to bend and kneel 
within the house where skin and hair and bone 
meet in a smoky, sniffling, crassly real 
desire to live and not to be alone.

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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 (/ /)

Mea culpa: at around 6:40 I say "5 lines" when I meant to say "5 feet."

Topics discussed in this episode include: 

-My upcoming sojourn to fair Albion 
-The master of Persian poetry gives me a light slap on the wrist 
-The Harlem Renaissance! 
-Form is important, but it should follow function 
-Form as intellectual and creative scaffolding 
-English on the outside, Italian on the inside (A "Rossetti" sonnet?) 
-Syllabic Variation, and its usefulness for beginners 
-"Get off your ath let's do some math!" 
-The maternal onus on womankind 
-Big death = little lives 
-We want the best for our children, even if they're plants 
-The paradox of the suffering corpse 
-The misery at the heart of this poem 

Text of the poem: 

Epitaph 

When I am dead, carve this upon my stone: 
Here lies a woman, fit root for flower and tree, 
Whose living flesh, now mouldering round the bone, 
Wants nothing more than this for immortality, 
That in her heart, where love so long unfruited lay 
A seed for grass or weed shall grow, 
And push to light and air its heedless way; 
That she who lies here dead may know 
Through all the putrid marrow of her bones 
The searing pangs of birth, 
While none may know the pains nor hear the groans 
Of she who lived with barrenness upon the earth.

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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 (/ /)

Topics discussed in this episode include:

 -The "Plain Style" 
-Epigrams
-"Stoner" by John Williams 
-Stanzaic asymmetricity 
-Wacky rhyme schemes as evidence of revision 
-Stanzaic palindromes 
-The triplet as the couplet of couplets 
-Ladies (feminine endings) last 
-The curious case of iambic tetrameter 
-A gloss of glose 
-Plato, the worst third-wheel ever, returns 
-Earthy kids 
-"Love" as heuristic 
-Western love poets as pseudo-incels 
-Christianity is Platonism for the masses 
-Do we ever really know the ones we love? 
-Plato gets dumped, again 
-Hume slides in the DMs, gets curved 
-Duns Scotus lookin like a snack tho 
-Scotistic realism 
-Plato's epistemology in the Theaetetus 
-Amor Vincit Philosophia 

Text of the poem: 

The Metaphysical Amorist

You are the problem I propose, 
my dear, the text my musings glose: 
I call you for convenience love. 
By definition you’re a cause 
inferred by necessary laws— 
you are so to the saints above. 

But in this shadowy lower life 
I sleep with a terrestrial wife 
and earthy children I beget. 
Love is a fiction I must use, 
a privilege I can abuse, 
and sometimes something I forget. 

Now, in the heavenly other place 
Love is in the eternal mind 
the luminous form whose shade she is 
a ghost discarnate, thought defined. 
She was so to my early bliss, 
she is so while I comprehend 
the form my senses apprehend, 
and in the end she will be so. 

Her whom my hands embrace I kiss, 
her whom my mind infers I know. 
The one exists in time and space 
and as she was she will not be; 
The other is in her own grace 
and is She is eternally. 

Plato! you shall not plague my life. 
I married a terrestrial wife. 
And Hume! She is not mere sensation 
in sequence of observed relation. 
She has two forms— ah, thank you, Duns!— 
I know her in both ways at once. 
I knew her, yes, before I knew her, 
and by both means I must construe her, 
and none among you shall undo her. 

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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 (/ /)

Topics discussed in this episode include:
 
-The joy of comparing like-minded poems 
-The Platonic dilemma of romantic love 
-Heroic couplets 
-The Problem of Universals 
-Plato 101 
-The contemptus mundi of Platonism 
-The Renaissance vogue for Platonism 
-Petrarch and the legacy of the Western love lyric 
-Poetic structure as the mirror of thought structure 
-Marriage is inherently anti-Platonic 
-Plato vs. Aristotle 
-Deduction vs. Induction 
-Malachi, Heraclitus, and the Buddha 
-Cyclical vs. Linear enlightenment 
-Marriage as spiritual practice 

Text of poem: 

Marriage As A Problem of Universals

For Meera and Navin Govil 

Marriage is where 
the large abstractions we profess 
are put gently in their small place— 
the holist’s stare 
in love with Man has managed less 
than eyes that love one aging face. 

Marriage believes 
the universals we desire 
are children of a worldly care— 
while Plato grieves 
for stasis, the refining fire 
men pass through is the lives they share. 

Marriages move 
between the symbol and life’s facts, 
from Beauty to this troubled face— 
though what we love 
is Truth, Truth flares and fades in acts 
of local, unrecorded grace. 

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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 (/ /)

Topics discussed in this episode include:

-My thanks for (past and future) rating and reviewing! 
-Art vs. Craft 
-The spectrum of creativity 
-Craft as all making, not rote production 
-The Romantic fallacy of art without craft 
-The case to abolish "art." 
-Utilitarian vs. Rhetorical craft 
-Horace's "Dulce Et Utile" 
-The secret third thing that Horatio had not dreamt of in his philosophy 
-The three functions of art 
-The Hedonic function ;) 
-Sensory, Cognitive, Emotional Pleasure
-Let me teach you about the Noetic function. 
-Insight vs. Sensitization
-What do YOU think of the Dialectical function? 
-Functional symbiosis 
-Individual functions in excess and isolation 
-A rubric for artistic evaluation 
-Collectivist Art (for us!) 
-Individualist Art (for me!) 
-Humanist Art (for the universal spirit of humankind!)

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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 (/ /)

Topics discussed in this episode include:

 -My life story
-Poetic "throat-clearing" 
-Curtal sonnets 
-Why sonnets are the supreme lyric form 
-English vs. Italian sonnets 
-I'm basically Aristotle 
-The inscrutability of life and the nihilist's overreaction 
-The tragic mistake behind global warming and the meat industry 
-What does autochthonic mean?? 
-Sartre can eat my shorts 
-Aseity 
-The meaning of meaning 
-Semiotics, as if I wasn't pretentious enough 
-The impossibility of an immanent being perceiving or understanding a transcendent being 
-Science is not revelation 
-Apophatic theology 
-The burden of intelligence 
-It is what it is, and that means something 
-Lunar action at a distance 
-God as Solar Eclipse 
-My title is clever, guys. 

Text of poem: 

The Eclipse of Meaning 

The world may be unyielding, mute, deaf, blind 
to its own cries, and still no claim will hold 
so bold to preach no meaning— meaning meaning 
autochthonic being we can find. 
This truth, of which we cannot speak, we learn 
as much through logic as sublime emotion; 
we drown amidst excess of thoughts, but know 
that something sets these tides of ours in motion. 
Some terrifying moon in this abyss… 
dark forever, but too bright to miss. 

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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 (/ /)

Topics discussed in this episode include:

-The excellent poetry podcast Sleerickets, by MBS 
-The four kinds of written poetry 
-Toward a definition of "free verse" 
-Loose patterns and motley patterns 
-The debate over Robert Hayden 
-Hayden puts the verse in universal 
-How poetry can (and can't) change the world 
-The structure of a bullfight, of a poem 
-The Garden of Earthly Delights 
-Catalectic lines 
-Enter the Minotaur 
-Are we human, or are we bull-dancer? 
-The aestheticization of violence 
-The story of Veronica 
-Action sequins 
-The Lord of the Flies and the sexiness of murder 
-Are we laughing at truth, with truth, or being laughed at? 
-La Corrida as the Trinity, or, another kind of papal bull 
-Jesus's jock cousin, Mithras 
-Wagner/Freud's Thanatos Drive 
-Masculine angst, featuring Belmonte and Hemingway 
-Meter is back, and it feels so good. 
-Bullfight as tragic religious ritual 
-Box office details 
-The (possible) meaning of Ole! 
-Spoiler: the bull is Jesus. Muy original. 
-Stevens, Hemingway, and Heinlein on the value of death 
-Beauty the end, cruelty the means 

Text of poem: 

La Corrida 

El Toro 
From the blind kingdom 
where his horns are law, 

gigantically plunging and charging, 
he enters the clockface labyrinth— 

man-in-beast, creature 
whose guileless power is his doom. 

El Matador 
In the heart of the maze 
whose ritual pathways 
goading lance, bloodflowering dart, 
veronica and sword define, 

the fateful one, fate’s dazzler, 
gleams in suit of lights, 
prepares for sensual death 
his moment of mocking truth. 

In the fiery heart of the maze 
the bullgod moves, 
transfiguring death 
and the wish to die. 

Sol y Sombra 
From all we are yet cannot be 
deliver, oh redeem us now. 

Of all we know and do not wish 
to know, purge oh purge us now. 

Ole! 

Upon the cross of horns 
be crucified for us. 

Die for us that death 
may call us back to life. 

Ole! 

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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 (/ /)