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"The Night Mirror" by John Hollander
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Topics discussed include:
-Going to Oaxaca!
-"Poetry and Music" and "Rhyme's Reason" by John Hollander
-Jacques Lacan and the "mirror phase"
-The nightmare of the self vs. the nightmare of the unconscious
-The survival of Romanticism
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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 (/ /)