Listen ""Sunlight" by Thom Gunn"
Episode Synopsis
Mea culpa: Several times I refer to "Sunlight" as "Sunshine." Blame it on the LSD (which was called "Orange Sunshine"). Text of poem here Topics discussed in this episode include: -Let me know what you think I should teach!-On The Morning Of Christ's Nativity by John Milton-The Gas Poker by Thom Gunn-The Movement-Syllabics as gateway drug-Lucy In the Sky With Demanding Forms-Thom Gunn, Renaissance man-Golding's Metamorphoses-Philosophical religions-A cursory and woefully incomplete history of Platonism-Adonais by that son-of-a-Bysshe Percy Shelley-An Essay On Man by Alexander Pope-Plato's Symposium (see the famous Diotima section)-Christmas Day 2023 was the day I learned the sun was green-Sunday Morning by Wallace Stevens -A song of experience in search of deeper innocenceSupport the showVISIT MY WEBSITE HERE. BUY 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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