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"Eurydice On the Art of Poetry" by Shane McCrae
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Topics discussed in this episode include:
-Au revoir until June!
-"The Birth of Tragedy" by Friederich Nietzsche
-"The Picture of Dorian Gray" by Oscar Wilde
-"Pere Goriot" by Honore de Balzac
-The aesthetic parasite
-"And Which of Them In Time Would Be Betrayed" by Derek Walcott
-"The Georgics" by Publius Vergilius Maro
-"The Metamorphoses" by Publius Ovidius Naso
-The tale of Orpheus and Eurydice
-"Portrait of A Lady On Fire" directed by Celine Sciamma
-"Eurydice's Footnote" by A.E. Stallings
-"Pulling the Chariot of the Sun" by Shane McCrae
-"Eurydice On the Art of Poetry" by Shane McCrae
-"The Inferno" by Dante Alighieri
-"The Odyssey" by Omeros
-"Eurydice" by Adrienne Su
-"Axel" by Auguste Villiers de L'Isle-Adam
-The Orphic imperative absorbs all
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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 (/ /)