Soundtrack to this episode

Topics discussed in this episode include:

-The Beatles
-Beatles documentary "Get Back"
-"The Other Frost" by Randall Jarrell
-"Robert Frost: or, the Spiritual Drifter as Poet" by Yvor Winters
-"The Other Other Frost" by William Logan
-"The Themes of Robert Frost" by Robert Penn Warren
-"A History of Modern Poetry" by David Perkins
-Phalaecian hendacasyllabics
-Catullus I
-Plato's "Symposium"

Frost poems mentioned/discussed:
-The Road Not Taken
-Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
-Mending Wall
-Fire and Ice
-Nothing Gold Can Stay
-For Once, Then, Something
-Design
-Mowing
-After Apple-Picking
-Birches
-The Most of It
-The Silken Tent
-Come In
-Neither Out Far Nor In Deep
-To a Moth Seen in Winter
-Home Burial

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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 (/ /)