"Simple Autumnal" by Louise Bogan

Text of poem here

Topics mentioned in this episode include:

-Jungenstil, The Vienna Secession, The Belle Epoque

-Leonie Adams (see my episode on her here)

-The hard-hearted bravado of early 20th century American poetry by women

-The double twist of the hybrid sonnet

-Spondees and dactyls

-Theodore Roethke (see my episode on him here)

-"Ode On The Death Of Pius XII" by A.D. Hope

-See my episode on A.D. Hope here

-The bitterness of beauty to the grieving, and the beauty of grief.

-"The Wasteland" by T.S. Eliot (see my episode on Eliot here)

-"Sunday Morning" by Wallace Stevens (see my episode on Stevens here)

-Heraclitus and The Buddha

-To die, or to die into greater life?

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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 (/ /)