Versecraft

Subjects touched on in this episode include:  -Mid-century poet syndrome  -Rhythmic vs. metrical variation  -The poem as caesura salad  -The Mind-Body problem, or, putting Descartes before the horse  -Chaos and Cosmos  -Is Hell artificial or organic?  -Guilty sin vs. sinful guilt  -More distinctions re: Romanticism  -Insatiable desire and spiritual hollowness  -A great Shakespeare quote from a jus...

Subjects discussed in this episode include:    -Aspects of devotional and Metaphysical poetry -Memento Mori and its more fun twin, Carpe Diem  -Tell the truth, but tell it in true rhymes.  -The passing of time really blows.  -Death may be the mother of beauty, but sin is the mother of death.  -You may be star dust, but you're still dust.  -A surprisingly harmless debate about pronouns.  -Ther...

Mea culpa: The first line ("In a dark time, the eye begins to see) actually scans as: pyrrhic, spondee, iamb, iamb, iamb.  Topics discussed in this episode include:   -How to pronounce (or not) this dude's name -Romanticism -Romanticism's problem child, Confessional poetry -Mysticism via mental illness -Meter and rhyme zaniness -Two new kinds of feet! -Paradoxes thrust one into figu...

"A Song For Rising" by Edgar Bowers  Published September 19th, 2022  Some of the topics covered in this episode include:  -What verse is  -What this thing that we call meter is  -Poetry is like crack  -Why make time to rhyme?  -Edgar Bowers, perfect man of arts and letters  -I know I am, but what are you?  -Pantheism!  -Psych, no pantheism.  -Confronting existence between the voids of bi...