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"The Birth of God" by Daniel Brown
Text of poem here.
Mea culpa: Please read "tercets" for "triplets"
Topics discussed in this episode include:
-J.V. Cunningham (see my episode on him here)
-The Tribe of Ben (Jonson)
-Check out Dan's books here!
-The Swallow Anthology of New American Poets
-Accentual or Accentual-Syllabic?
-Macro-rhythmic modulation
-The soul of wit?
-My episode on Emily Dickinson
-The Lascaux cave paintings
-Genesis 2:7
-Allegory of the Cave 101
-The cry of Sex-Birth-Grief
-Ecclesiastes
-Voltaire (who was actually not an atheist, but a deist)
-"Mere Christianity" by C.S. Lewis
-"Is Theology Poetry?" by C.S. Lewis
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The landscape of Ohioan poetry (Jeremy): Poetry Spotlight
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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 (/ /)