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Topics discussed in this episode include:

-Transcending the smallness of one's time

-The Flaming Terrapin

-The Voorslag Affair

-Campbell against the world, i.e. punching Steve Spender in the face

-Ambivalent stanzas

-The Waste Land" by T.S. Eliot

-"Sunday Morning" by Wallace Stevens

-"Kubla Khan" by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

-"The Whiteness of the Whale" by Herman Melville

-A Nietzschean response to apocalypse

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The landscape of Ohioan poetry (Jeremy): Poetry Spotlight

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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 (/ /)