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"Through The Water" by James Matthew Wilson
Text of poem here
Topics discussed in this episode include:
-My experience in New York's formalist bohemia
-James Matthew Wilson and his books
-Jacques Maritain & Etienne Gilson
-The iambic decameter effect
-Broken-backed lines
-"The Castle of Thorns" by Yvor Winters
-"The Slow Pacific Swell" by Yvor Winters
-"Mother Carey's Hen" by David Yezzi
-My episode on the above poem
-Encountering water as chaoskampf
-John 13 and 14
-Keats' notion of the "mansion of many apartments"
-"Before the Law" by Franz Kafka
-Paganism as spiritual childhood
-The Univocity vs. Analogy debate between Scotus and Aquinas
-Matthew 4 and 14
-The fisher can't fish himself!
-We should all be more like that giant monster of God, Behemoth
-Job 40
-Edgar Bowers and Sturge Moore
-Baptized in the Sublime
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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 (/ /)