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Schopenhauer Cocktail Hour, Part 2
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My lecture on The Grand Style in English
My poem, "Spelunker," in New Verse Review
Poetry’s psychological effect and moral charge
The burden of genius
Poetry vs. Philosophy
Maimonides and Augustine
The decadence of the academy
"Poetry as Enchantment" by Dana Gioia
The function of meter and rhyme
The heresy of paraphrase
Bouts-rime and pleonasm
Romanticism redux
Leo Strauss
The spiritual je ne sais quoi of tragedy
The horror film “Martyrs”
“Norma” by Vincenzo Bellini
“Tristan und Isolde” by Richard Wagner
Stoic vs. Christian resignation
Bourgeois tragedy and the existential hero
“Hedda Gabler” by Ibsen
“Brand” by Ibsen
“Death of a Salesman” by Arthur Miller
“The Death of Tragedy” by George Steiner
“The Clouds” by Aristophanes
Tragedy vs. Comedy and the Absurd
“It’s A Wonderful Life” by Frank Capra
“Alcestis” by Euripides
History as Self-consciousness
The hazards of Protestantism
The history of the night before
“Swann’s Way” by Marcel Proust
Monuments as time capsules
The Egyptian legacy
The Book of Job
Friendship with the dead
The musical chain of being
Music as the Cosmic Will
Discord and reconciliation
You are the string that is plucked
Liebestod
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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 (/ /)