10 Poems I Like
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Poems discussed on this episode include:
- "Are They Shadows" by Samuel Daniel
- "To Heaven" by Ben Jonson
- "The Kraken" by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
- "Aspecta Medusa" by Dante Gabriel Rossetti
- Sonnet VII by George Santayana
- "Rock and Hawk" by Robinson Jeffers
- "What Are Years" by Marianne Moore
- "My Son, My Executioner" by Donald Hall
- "Drought" by Catherine Chandler (see show transcript for text)
- "Elegy" by John Dunn Smith
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Sharp thoughts and cutting truths (Matthew): Sleerickets
Lovely introspection and sensitive reflection (Alice): Poetry Says
The landscape of Ohioan poetry (Jeremy): Poetry Spotlight
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 (/ /)
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