"Angle of Geese" by N. Scott Momaday

Text of poem here

Topics discussed in this episode include:

-The Stafford Challenge

-The Kiowa people

-Frederick Goddard Tuckerman

-Winters and Bowers

-"The Death Of Sitting Bear"

-"House Made Of Dawn"

-"The Way To Rainy Mountain"

-The Native American Renaissance

-Mixed meter, mixed KINDS of meter

-Remember, catalexis = without final unaccented syllable (opposite of acephaly)

-The inadequacy of language

-How should we mourn?

-The anecdote of the goose

-The Most Of It by Robert Frost

-The Conference of the Birds by Farrad Ud-din Attar (translated by Dick Davis!)

-Pythagorean mysticism

-The Tyger by William Blake

-You have to feel it to believe it

-The poet's task

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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 (/ /)