"The End Of The Weekend" by Anthony Hecht

Text of poem here

Mea culpa: When I said "fearful," I meant "fearsome"

L'esprit d'escalier: "Above the boneyard burn its golden eyes" has a similar euphony to Donne's famous: "A bracelet of bright hair about the bone."

Topics discussed in this episode include:

-Anthony Hecht's new Collected Poems, edited by Philip Hoy

-David Yezzi's new biography of Hecht, Late Romance

-The caprice of the canon

-Frost, Hawthorne, and Puritan allegory

-"Dramatic" line breaks

-Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath

-The diction of the male gaze

-The Sleerickets episodes (Part 1 and Part 2) with myself, Matthew, and Alice on Hecht's essay, "The Pathetic Fallacy."

-Sextod

-Sin as the mother of death (see Paradise Lost)

-Sex as prayer

-The connotations of magnesium

-Leda and the Swan by W.B. Yeats

-A Barred Owl by Richard Wilbur

-The symbology of owls

-What fell beast is this?

-Edificiary chakras

-Hughes the murderous crow

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