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"Bedtime Metaphysics" by Morri Creech
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Mea culpa: Yes, in the heat of the moment, I mispronounced mise en scene. A la guillotine!
Topics discussed include:
-Some po-biz kvetching
-The telos of Versecraft
-The "ghost" of pentameter
-The Stevensian cosmovision and the metaphysics of metaphor
-The axis mundi
-Nicholas of Cusa and coincidentia oppositorum
-The Moirai
-Contronyms
-"An Ordinary Childhood" by Morri Creech
-Selve oscura dolce
-I.A. Richards and tenor & vehicle
-"Tintern Abbey" by William Wordsworth
-"Poem Without Metaphors" by Matthew Buckley Smith
-My chapbook, "The Necklace of Harmonia"
-My book, "Against Oblivion"
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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 (/ /)