Alexander Schmid Podcast

In this episode of Night School, Mr. Wesley Schantz and I consider Emily Brontë's "No Coward Soul Is Mine", and Emily Dickinson's "Some keep the Sabbath going to Church – (236)" and "I dwell in Possibility – (466)". We specifically consider (a) the relationship between Dickinson and Brontë's poetry in theme and structure ; (b) the ways in which Dickinson's view of religion may have clashed with norms and been rationalist in its approach, and (c) what the process of building a poem or "house of possibility" entails and brings out in or requires of a reader. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/alexander-schmid9/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/alexander-schmid9/support

In this lecture, we (a) meet the old and wise Nestor and his son Peisistratos In Pylos, (b) venture forward to the land of sadness, Sparta, and meet Menelaos and the beautiful and observant Helen of Argos, and (c) learn the cost of experience and wisdom! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/alexander-schmid9/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/alexander-schmid9/support

In this lecture, we consider (a) the entrance of Beatrice and exit of Virgil in the story, (b) the end of the Biblical procession, and (c) a dramatic representation of the corruption of the Church throughout time. --- 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. Wesley Schantz and I consider Emily Dickinson's "All overgrown by cunning moss," and recite Emily Brontë's "No Coward Soul Is Mine". We specifically consider (a) the story untying the poem about the death of Charlotte Brontë; (b) the ways poems and perceptions of poets evolve over time, and (c) we recite the poem by Emily Brontë which Emily Dickinson requested be read at her funeral. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/alexander-schmid9/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/alexander-schmid9/support

In this lecture, we discuss (a) Athene's strategy for helping Odysseus and Telemachos, (b) Zeus' proclamation that man's own "wild recklessness" is often the cause of his own suffering, and (c) observed Telemachos' first disastrous public speech in assembly. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/alexander-schmid9/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/alexander-schmid9/support

In this lecture, we consider (a) the Terrace of Lust and its relation to chastity, (b) Terrestrial Paradise and how the end is just the beginning, and (c) what is the meaning of the Biblical Procession in Eden/Terrestrial Paradise? --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/alexander-schmid9/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/alexander-schmid9/support

In this lecture, we consider (a) the fate of Agamemnon, (b) the dramatis personae of Homer's "Odyssey", and (c) the theme of "nothing is as it seems". --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/alexander-schmid9/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/alexander-schmid9/support

In this lecture, we consider (a) the terraces of Sloth, Avarice (and prodigality), and gluttony. Specifically, we consider how what sloth, avarice, and gluttony cost, (b) how love poetry may be tied to self-indulgence, and (c) the potential costs of sensual delights to lifetime achievement. --- 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 Emily Dickinson's "Surgeons must be very careful" and ""Faith" is fine invention". We specifically consider (a) the length and form of the short poems, (b) how a poem is a small manifestation of articulated being, and (c) how "faith" and faith differ in the context of the second poem. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/alexander-schmid9/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/alexander-schmid9/support

In this third podcast on the 4th volume in the Harry Potter series, "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire," Ms. Sarah Miller, Mr. Wes Schantz, and I discuss (a) the Unforgivable Curses and what is so unforgivable about them; (b) number symbolism surrounding threes and fours (trinities and quaternaries) in the text, and (c) what happens once one's view of the world now must reflect the darkness therein? --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/alexander-schmid9/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/alexander-schmid9/support

In this lecture, we review (a) the lost epics: "The Aethiopis" and "The Little Iliad" and move through (b) "The Sack of Ilium" and "The Returns". Specifically, we consider (a) the Trojan Horse, Sinon, and Laocoon, (b) the carnage at Troy the night it falls, and (c) the misbegotten ways home of the Achaian heroes. * Aigisthos, not Orestes, kills Agamemnon! --- 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 consider (a) the disorienting experience of moving on after tragedy, (b) the significance of the snowboard and the map, and (c) what real-world lessons the game has to teach us about behavior and adapting to change in the world. --- 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 the American poet Emily Dickinson's "Come Slowly--Eden!" and "Arcturus". Specifically, we consider (a) transitions between religious and naturalistic uses of language and perceptions of reality, (b) Dickinson's use of structure and form to convey meaning, and (c) the relationship between scientific knowledge and the experience of meaning and its changing relationship in language and time. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/alexander-schmid9/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/alexander-schmid9/support

In this episode of Recurrent Events, Mr. Wes Schantz and I consider (1) what the role of educational certification is and how it relates to the craft of teaching, (2) how the responsibilities of substitute teaching differ from classroom (TOR) teaching, and (3) how one can transform the teaching profession from within the classroom. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/alexander-schmid9/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/alexander-schmid9/support

In this lecture, we consider summaries of the lost epics: (a) "The Aethiopis", and (b) "The Little Iliad". Specifically, we consider the fates of (1) Achilleus, (2) Aias the Greater, and (3) Paris of Troy. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/alexander-schmid9/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/alexander-schmid9/support

On this special episode of Side Quests, Mr. Wesley Schantz and I welcome Dr. Matt Roos from the Consilience Conversations podcast (https://anchor.fm/alexander-schmid9/episodes/Consilience-Conversations-001-Confirmation-Bias-e26n1v) to talk about addiction and gaming. We talk about (a) the positive and negative aspects of gaming, (b) the relationship of addiction to habit formation and how game developers can build addictive habits into gameplay (and the ethics of these practices); and (c) the relationship between narrative/fantasy and addiction in young people, and particularly in young men. --- 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 conclude our foray in Whitman's "Song of Myself" with Pts. 50, 51, and 52. We consider (a) the interplay of time in poetry and life and what is eternal about both, (b) what the meaning of contradiction is within a poem and poet, and (c) what the meaning of the poem is writ-large, and what is the purpose of the poet. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/alexander-schmid9/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/alexander-schmid9/support

In this lecture, we conclude the Homer's "Iliad" lecture course. We consider (a) the underworld journey of Priam to Achilleus, (b) the realization of his own mortality by Achilleus, and (c) the range of human experience and suffering. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/alexander-schmid9/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/alexander-schmid9/support

In this second podcast on the 4th volume in the Harry Potter series, "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire," Ms. Sarah Miller, Mr. Wes Schantz, and I discuss (a) what magical drinks we would have in the Leaky Cauldron, (b) the positive and negative aspects of groups at the Quidditch World Cup and (c) the ever more defined nature of darkness and the wizarding world in this fourth book of the series! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/alexander-schmid9/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/alexander-schmid9/support

In this lecture we consider: (a) The duplicity of Apollo and Athene, (b) the fight and pre-fight between Hektor and Achilleus, and (c) the catastrophic consequences of Achilleus' actions afterward. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/alexander-schmid9/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/alexander-schmid9/support