"Apollinian" by Amit Majmudar

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Text of poem

Topics discussed in this episode:

-My sojourn in Gaul

-ITER!

-Atomic Fusion

-The contemptible STEM/Humanities divide

-Amit Majmudar!

-Sleerickets Episode 144

-Amphibrachic hexameter

-"The Birth of Tragedy" by Friedrich Nietzsche

-The Solar Cycle

-Apollo, the inverse Romantic

-Homer's Odyssey

-The myth of Daphne

-Rage or Oblivion?

-Come see David, Matthew, and Ryan JUNE 13TH and Amit JULY 11TH!!

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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 (/ /)