"Send Forth the High Falcon" by Leonie Adams

PSA: No Versecraft next week! Sorry :(  Also, the audio is a little crackly in the beginning, but smooths out after a few minutes.  

Topics discussed in this episode include: 

-Why the 1920's be like that

-The Modernist rogues gallery

-Flapper Poet Girl Gang

-The Neo-Romantics

-Contribute to the Make Versecraft A Legitimate Side Hustle Fund

-Hag Pesach Sameach, y'all

-Who knew 1899-1988 was such a tongue twister?

-Jesus Louises! (Bogan and Gluck)

-Crackpot critical savant Harold Bloom

-Cool contempo skalds Annie Finch and Shane McCrae

-Romantic-Metaphysical-Symbolist melange

-Rules are meant to be broken, apparently

-A case for Sam Spade

-"The Clouds" by Aristophanes

-Insert "Second Coming" reference here

-Classic heart vs. mind situash. 

-I'm not philosophically vain, I'm metaphysically conceited! 

-Young millennial nostalgic fav Fantasia 2000 

-The Myth of Phaethon

-I like my air medium rare

-Sympathy for the hapless mind

-The mind takes credit for the heart's work

-A devotional poem? 

-The big homie John "Spank Me Daddy" Donne

-The smaller homie Francis Thompson

-Pros and cons of Romanticism

-Modernism = Wacky Romanticism

-Post-Modernism = Wacky_R0mant1c1sm.jpg

-Aeschylus is never wrong

Text of poem:

Send Forth the High Falcon

Send forth the high falcon flying after the mind   

Till it come toppling down from its cold cloud:   

The beak of the falcon to pierce it till it fall

Where the simple heart is bowed.

O in wild innocence it rides

The rare ungovernable element,

But once it sways to terror and descent,

The marches of the wind are its abyss,

No wind staying it upward of the breast—

Let mind be proud for this,

And ignorant from what fabulous cause it dropt,

Or with how learned a gesture the unschooled heart   

Shall lull both terror and innocence to rest.