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10 Poems I Like

• Elijah Perseus Blumov • Season 6 • Episode 5

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Poems discussed on this episode include:

 

  1. "Are They Shadows" by Samuel Daniel
  2. "To Heaven" by Ben Jonson
  3. "The Kraken" by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
  4. "Aspecta Medusa" by Dante Gabriel Rossetti
  5. Sonnet VII by George Santayana
  6. "Rock and Hawk" by Robinson Jeffers
  7. "What Are Years" by Marianne Moore
  8. "My Son, My Executioner" by Donald Hall
  9. "Drought" by Catherine Chandler (see show transcript for text)
  10. "Elegy" by John Dunn Smith

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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 (/ /)