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"Simple Autumnal" by Louise Bogan
Text of poem here
Topics mentioned in this episode include:
-Jungenstil, The Vienna Secession, The Belle Epoque
-Leonie Adams (see my episode on her here)
-The hard-hearted bravado of early 20th century American poetry by women
-The double twist of the hybrid sonnet
-Spondees and dactyls
-Theodore Roethke (see my episode on him here)
-"Ode On The Death Of Pius XII" by A.D. Hope
-See my episode on A.D. Hope here
-The bitterness of beauty to the grieving, and the beauty of grief.
-"The Wasteland" by T.S. Eliot (see my episode on Eliot here)
-"Sunday Morning" by Wallace Stevens (see my episode on Stevens here)
-Heraclitus and The Buddha
-To die, or to die into greater life?
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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 (/ /)