Get Versecraft merch HERE!  Topics discussed in this episode include: -"T.S. Eliot: The Illusion of Reaction" by Yvor Winters-Les poetes maudites Tristan Corbiere et Jules Laforgue-When Eliot was taken to Pound town-The objective correlative and its problems-This is basically what East Coker is-The "Logic" of Imagery (Crane: "Well, one of us is going to have to change!")-Nancy Drew And The Curious Case of Why Eliot Thinks He's A Classicist-The Dissociation of Sensibility -"Life is difficult, so like... poetry should be difficult, man!" -The fallacy of imitative form-"Sweet Caroline" just sounds better than "Sweet Jacobean"-A forbidden fruit a day keeps Dr. Jesus away-Every rose has its thorn, except Mary's-From Satan's creature to God's preacher Text of poem: East Coker IV The wounded surgeon plies the steelThat questions the distempered part;Beneath the bleeding hands we feelThe sharp compassion of the healer's artResolving the enigma of the fever chart. Our only health is the diseaseIf we obey the dying nurseWhose constant care is not to pleaseBut to remind of our, and Adam's curse,And that, to be restored, our sickness must grow worse. The whole earth is our hospitalEndowed by the ruined millionaire,Wherein, if we do well, we shallDie of the absolute paternal careThat will not leave us, but prevents us everywhere.The chill ascends from feet to knees,The fever sings in mental wires.If to be warmed, then I must freezeAnd quake in frigid purgatorial firesOf which the flame is roses, and the smoke is briars.The dripping blood our only drink,The bloody flesh our only food:In spite of which we like to thinkThat we are sound, substantial flesh and blood—Again, in spite of that, we call this Friday good. Support the showBUY VERSECRAFT MERCH HERE. VISIT THE VERSECRAFT SUBSTACK HERE.Please subscribe, rate, and review! Thanks so much for listening.You can leave me a tip, support the podcast, or request a commission here! TikTok: @versecraftSend me a note at: [email protected] favorite poetry podcasts for: Sharp thoughts and cutting truths (Matthew): Sleerickets Lovely introspection and sensitive reflection (Alice): Poetry Says The landscape of Ohioan poetry (Jeremy): Poetry Spotlight Supported in part by The Ohio Poetry AssociationArt by David Anthony KlugList 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 (/ /)

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