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"Apollinian" by Amit Majmudar
Topics discussed in this episode:
-My sojourn in Gaul
-The contemptible STEM/Humanities divide
-Amphibrachic hexameter
-"The Birth of Tragedy" by Friedrich Nietzsche
-The Solar Cycle
-Apollo, the inverse Romantic
-Homer's Odyssey
-The myth of Daphne
-Rage or Oblivion?
-Come see David, Matthew, and Ryan JUNE 13TH and Amit JULY 11TH!!
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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 (/ /)