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"Preludes to Memnon 1:4-5" by Conrad Aiken
Topics discussed in this episode include:
-My recent class at the Frost Farm Conference
-My trip to Europe
-Come to the ALSCW Conference!
-Part I and Part II of my essay on French poetry in Marginalia Review of Books
-New poems and translations of mine in the latest issue of Literary Matters
-My essays The Iron Lyre and The Monumentalist Manifesto
-The Romantic within the Classicist
-Philosophy within poetry
-The mystique of Santayana
-"The Morning Song of Senlin" by Conrad Aiken
-"The Clerk's Journal" and "The House of Dust" by Conrad Aiken
-"Under the Volcano" by Malcolm Lowry
-"Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil" by John Berendt
-The Colossi of Memnon
-Metrical trickery and incorporating Whitman into iambs.
-Stevensian Idealism and the Supreme Fiction
-Neoplatonism and Ukiyo
-From Solipsism to Pantheism
-From Berkeley to Kant
-The meaning of "God's Image"
-Dialectical Monism, the Dyad, and the Tao
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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 (/ /)