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Listen to the full episode @ patreon.com/reelpolitik - subscribe for $5 a month (you can actually pay less if you want to, or even more!) and you'll get this and shitload of other exclusive RP content. Jack reviews the new Bob Dylan song, I Contain Multitudes, with Yair in tow. The song's literary influences are addressed, namely Walt Whitman's Song of Myself and Shelby Foote's The Civil War: A Narrative. After the Dylan talk, and a brief mention of how Bob figures in the GapeVerse, the notion that nothing on the internet is ever truly gone is debated for a few minutes. It's a short one, and a bit lo-fi, but a sweet one. Recorded as part of our April movie roundup.
In this edition of Night School, Mr. Wes Schantz and I consider Walt Whitman's "Song of Myself" parts 31-32. We specifically think through (a) Whitman's versatility and command of style, (b) the range of his poetic ambition and range of his naturalistic experience and expression, and (c) a consideration of what mastery really is for Whitman as a poet. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/alexander-schmid9/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/alexander-schmid9/support
In this edition of Night School, Mr. Wes Schantz and I consider Walt Whitman's "Song of Myself" parts 28-30. We specifically think through (a) Whitman's first showing of vulnerability and his confrontation with his own ethical/poetical limits, (b) the connection between a "golden age" and the world of culture produced and maintained by the articulated word, and (c) a return to his universalistic imagery. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/alexander-schmid9/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/alexander-schmid9/support
In this edition of Night School, Mr. Wes Schantz and I consider Walt Whitman's "Song of Myself" parts 25-27. We specifically think through (a) Whitman's questioning whether he is ready to attempt a poetic "magnum opus", (b) the connection between a poem, music, and the movements of the heavens, and (c) will Whitman take a stand for something beyond universality of experience/liberality of expression? --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/alexander-schmid9/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/alexander-schmid9/support
In this morning edition of Night School, Mr. Wes Schantz and I consider Walt Whitman's "Song of Myself" parts 23 and 24. We specifically think through (a) the contrast between poetic expression and scholarly knowledge, (b) the divinity of human subjective experience, and (c) Whitman's engaging with Dante and the epic tradition. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/alexander-schmid9/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/alexander-schmid9/support
In this episode of Night School, Mr. Wes Schantz and I consider parts 20-22 of Walt Whitman's "Song of Myself." We then specifically think through (a) Whitman's varied claims to both individuality and universality and their interplay, (b) his use of feminine figures of chthonic deitiies (Night, Earth), and (c) how he as a poet is responsible for representing all without judgment, and all thus as worthy of wonder as a creation of some abstract or embodied god. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/alexander-schmid9/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/alexander-schmid9/support
In this episode, Mr. Wes Schantz and I discuss Walt Whitman's "Song of Myself," parts 17-19. We discuss (a) the poetic act and poet himself, (b) originality and ingenuity in poetry, and (c) the meaning of life being tethered to being-itself, and its self-reflection. And how articulation, poetry, is a specifically human, and thus glorious example of the manifestation of a human's being. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/alexander-schmid9/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/alexander-schmid9/support
In this episode of Night School, Mr. Wes Schantz and I tackles parts 5-7 in Walt Whitman's "Song of Myself". We consider (a) how and when to use a dictionary and differing approaches to reading poetry; (b) what the relationship between man and the divine, and being and divinity in the poem; and (c) what the fundamental relationship between "being" and "object/thing" is. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/alexander-schmid9/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/alexander-schmid9/support
As counter-programming to the clamor and nonsense of these last days before the American Presidential election, here is Walt Whitman's "Song of Myself" in its entirety. Really. VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE New episode next week.
Part 7 - Walt Whitman's "Song of Myself" as a Performance (11:33)In this segment of the interview, O'Keefe explicates Whitman's famous poem as he discusses the process of bringing "Song of Myself" to the stage. O'Keefe, like one of his mentors, John Cage, has found inspiration from America's revolutionary poet, Walt Whitman.Part 7 - Very Close to CD-Quality MPEG-4 (Broadband) (4.1M)Part 7 - High Quality MPEG-4 (ISDN) (8.1M)Part 7 - Highest Quality MPEG-4 available for Dial_up (16.1M)