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Black Magic: Two Poems by Seamus Heaney
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Read the poems: "The Early Purges" and "Limbo."
Topics mentioned:
-Poetry careerism in the 21st century
-The perennial appeal of the Gentleman Farmer Poet
-The value of exposure to death
-Rural vs. Urban morality
-"The Need of Being Versed in Country Things" by Robert Frost
-Piscine Christianity
-"At the Fishhouses" by Elizabeth Bishop
-My most recent Sleerickets appearance
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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 (/ /)