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"De Anima" by Howard Nemerov
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Topics discussed in this episode include:
-Greatest Generation poets
-"Because You Asked About the Line Between Prose and Poetry" by Howard Nemerov
-"De Anima" by Aristotle
-On loose iambics
-The ghost of Sapphics
-A transexual volta
-Life engenders the great romance of death
-"Spring and Fall" by Gerard Manley Hopkins
-The nature of empathy and tragedy
-Orpheus and Eurydice and my Shane McCrae Episode
-Cupid like you've never seen him before
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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 (/ /)
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