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Hello, Welcome to Poetrify

Spotify? No, Poetrify.

Poetrify intends to move away from organizing poems by genres but based on their functionality. These series of poems care about establishing a healthy circadian rhythm for Cornell students, and we hope to provide poems appropriate for waking up, sleeping, studying, commuting, and so on.

Our daily podcast mix will demonstrate how poetry becomes less of an art form and more utilization through having different poems dedicated to 5 different time slots.

These poems will weave together the potential benefits of engaging with poetry identified by psychoanalysis to inform approaches to reading poetry.

Our goal is to not only capture every moment of your life through poetry but to also help your circadian rhythm running smoothly.

The time slots are carefully and intentionally set at a certain time of the day to make sure you are waking up, eating, or sleeping at a consistent schedule.

This is because we recognize the importance of maintaining a consistent circadian rhythm. "If you don't respect the circadian rhythm, you open the door to insomnia, anxiety, depression, and more" (Gersh)-- something we want Cornell students to avoid. Therefore, we found ways for students to get enough sleep, eat a diet rich in nutritious foods, and more to help students ward off a multitude of medical problems.

The poems will be presented in a way to show a mix of data and human curation, swayed by current Cornell students' outlook on how you should encounter different instances in your life as a Cornell student.

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We also have a playlist on the side designated for each podcast series, so please feel free to explore!

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Scroll down to see the transcript of our podcast series!

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10PM: IF

[Transcript]

Vanessa: Welcome back to the Poetrify. Poetrify allows you to read and listen to millions of poems ad-free, on-demand, and offline. Try Poetrify premium!

Vanessa: I am Vanessa Shim, and with me, for the 10pm podcast series today is Bruce Li.

Bruce: Hello.

Vanessa: Thank you for taking your time today to come to lead this podcast session with me.

Bruce: No problem.

Vanessa: How's your finals week going?

Bruce: Quite stressful.

Vanessa: We understand that it is final exam season, and a lot of first-year students are stressing trying to balance their life. This poem by Rudyard Kipling provides a word of encouragement. This poem gives a glimpse into how one should live their life by providing hypothetical "if" situations.

Bruce: This is the poem:

If you can keep your head when all about you

Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,

If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,

But make allowance for their doubting too;

If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,

Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,

Or being hated, don't give way to hating,

And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise:

If you can dream - and not make dreams your master,

If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim;

If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster

And treat those two impostors just the same;

If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken

Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,

Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,

And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools:

If you can make one heap of all your winnings

And risk it all on one turn of pitch-and-toss,

And lose, and start again at your beginnings

And never breathe a word about your loss;

If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew

To serve your turn long after they are gone,

And so hold on when there is nothing in you

Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on!"

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,

Or walk with kings - nor lose the common touch,

If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,

If all men count with you, but none too much;

If you can fill the unforgiving minute

With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,

Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,

And - which is more - you'll be a Man, my son!

Vanessa: In line 9, Kipling writes, "If you can dream and not make dreams your master" to emphasize, one shouldn't be too caught up in achieving their dreams through making their dream their "master." This implies that dreams shouldn't control you like the "master," but they are something you can do without pressuring yourself. Similarly, in line 10, Kipling encourages people to think, but not make their thought their "aim." This suggests the importance of knowing reality and not getting disappointed if things fail.

"If you can make one heap of all your winnings

And risk it all on one turn of pitch-and-toss,

And lose, and start again at your beginnings

And never breathe a word about your loss;"

Additionally, another important lesson from this poem as we approach the final exam season is that even if all fails, you still need to get back up and "start again at your beginnings." His whole third stanza implies that people will go through failures in their lives, however they cannot let that thought of failure consume you. You need to be willing to start again and not dwell on "your loss."

[Interlude]

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Vanessa: Welcome back to the second part of the 10 pm series! I am back here with Bruce Li to discuss further why we chose Rudyard Kipling's "If."

Vanessa: Hello Bruce-

Bruce: [interjects] Don't you think this poem is a bit long for students to read or listen to it at night? I would fall asleep *laughs*

Vanessa: I mean, these students probably are sleep deprived and need more sleep so it could be good thing haha *says it jokingly.*

Vanessa: But in all seriousness, people tend to think more about serious things during the night than during the day. Don't you think so too, Bruce?

Bruce: Yes, I'm usually focused on trying to absorb information from lectures during the day than forming my thoughts or thinking about my life.

Vanessa: This is because the prefrontal cortex, a part of the brain associated with the "ability to concentrate, begins to falter as sleep drive increases at the end of the day." With less of top-down control and "cognitive inhibition," the brain allows for more divergent thinking, "forming a new association between different concepts more easily" (Leventhal).

Bruce: Simply put, your brain is overwhelmed with information during the day, so the only time your brain has time to form new thoughts is during the night.

Vanessa: Yes, that is correct, and that is the reason why this Kipling's poem is good to read during the night. Unlike the morning poems, which was short and easy to understand, "If" requires more close reading and analysis to understand Kipling's implications. Also, Kipling's message in this poem is something we want to relay to the rest of the Cornell students: Do not be discouraged even if your plans fail. The more students spend time reading and analyzing "If," the more they will remember the message of the poem.

Bruce: Hmm...however, I feel like we're over analyzing and forcing this poem to be read in a certain way with a specific purpose. "Poetry is a small, vulnerable human activity no better or more powerful than thousands of other small, vulnerable human activities," and they are are "beautifully pointless, or pointlessly beautiful" (Orr). They are not instrumental.

Vanessa: I disagree because poems induce different emotions and thoughts. In this case, reading "If" can cheer people up because the message of the poem is uplifting and hopeful. According to a psychological study on the emotional power of poetry, it was proven that "poetry is a powerful emotional stimulus capable of engaging brain areas of primary reward." People got chills reading or listening to poems, and that experiences of "chills and goosebumps provide insight into the temporal organization of peak emotional experiences" (NCBI).

Bruce: Interesting.

Vanessa: Indeed, therefore, we hope this poem will induce different emotions and thoughts of Cornell students at 10 pm, right before they go to sleep.

Bruce: If going to sleep at ten is possible.

Vanessa: That's why we hold our podcast sessions at ten, so we hope they will get enough sleep.

Goodnight, everyone, and thank you for listening to our 10 pm Poetrify series! See you tomorrow at 8 am!

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6 PM: The Health-Food Diner

Vanessa: Welcome back to the poetrify — our 6 pm dinner series!! Poetrify allows you to read and listen to million of poems ad-free, on-demand, and offline. Try Poetrify premium!

Today’s menu features our favorite poem! Be excited to dip, sip, savor, and nibble on the poems found in this toothsome culinary poem to satisfy your cravings!

Vanessa: Kevin is here with me today to share our delicious poem!

Kevin: Hello humans.

Vanessa: Students at Cornell always work so hard and often skip their meals, which is very unhealthy. We don’t want this to happen so we’re helping you set consistent eating schedule to avoid health risk by playing our podcast at this time.

Kevin: With that, we have a poem related to food today to activate your brain to think about food and get you hungry.

It’s called the “The Health-Food Diner” by Maya Angelou:

No sprouted wheat and soya shoots And Brussels in a cake, Carrot straw and spinach raw, (Today, I need a steak).

Not thick brown rice and rice pilaw Or mushrooms creamed on toast, Turnips mashed and parsnips hashed, (I'm dreaming of a roast).

Health-food folks around the world Are thinned by anxious zeal, They look for help in seafood kelp (I count on breaded veal).

No smoking signs, raw mustard greens, Zucchini by the ton, Uncooked kale and bodies frail Are sure to make me run

Loins of pork and chicken thighs And standing rib, so prime, Pork chops brown and fresh ground round (I crave them all the time).

Irish stews and boiled corned beef and hot dogs by the scores, or any place that saves a space For smoking carnivores.

Vanessa: We bombarded you with more serious content in the previous podcast session, so we prepared a more light-hearted, playful, and fun-to-read poem!

Kevin: However, that does not mean that there are no hidden message behind this poem.

Vanessa: Indeed, this poem is actually a satire aimed at people who is overly serious about eating healthily. In the first two stanzas, Angelou utilizes parenthesis to give her personal input into what she thinks about healthy foods such as “soya shoots”, “mushrooms”, “carrots”, “spinach,” and more. It is evident that she enjoys meat and she even calls herself a “carnivore.”

Kevin: Then she proceeds to make fun of people who try to eat healthily by calling them “health-food folks around the world...thinned by anxious zeal” in lines 9-10.

Vanessa: The rhyme scheme such as cake and steak, zeal and veal, and scores and carnivores, also contribute to the mocking and playful tone of the poem.

Kevin: Yes, she is definitely mocking those “granola” people.

Vanessa: Haha...but I don’t think it’s bad to be health-conscious.

Kevin: Yea, you always go to Risely to get a salad when I get a burrito bowl at the Terrace. Risely food isn’t even that good.

Vanessa: Risely or Terrace, my main focus is for people to get food now so they don’t starve themselves or skip meals. Stay healthy and eat well everyone!

Vanessa: Thank you so much for listening and stay tuned for our 10 pm session!

Kevin: Bye fellow friends.

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3 PM: When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer

Vanessa: Hello! Hopefully, you are done with all your classes. If not we highly advise you to end all the classes by 3pm.

I totally empathize with your exhaustion after class, with that, I have a poem by Walt Whitman for our 3pm session, and I hope you can de-stress.

“When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer”:

When I heard the learn’d astronomer,

When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me,

When I was shown the charts and diagrams, to add, divide, and measure them,

When I sitting heard the astronomer where he lectured with much applause in the lecture-room,

How soon unaccountable I became tired and sick,

Till rising and gliding out I wander’d off by myself,

In the mystical moist night-air, and from time to time,

Look’d up in perfect silence at the stars.

Vanessa: Robert Frost draws out a stark contrast between the first and last four lines of the poem.

The first four lines describe what is happening around the speaker (proofs, figures, and the experience of the lecture) and the next four consecutive lines describe the reaction to the lecture.

The contrast builds a difference between academic knowledge gained through looking at “charts and diagrams” of astronomy and knowledge acquired through experiencing the actual “stars” first-hand.

With this poem, we would like to encourage Cornell students to explore the real world rather than just memorizing theorems or reading textbooks.

Vanessa: Whitman ultimately shows that learning doesn’t rely on manmade mathematical interpretations, but on experiences. One must walk into the lap of nature to understand its mystery.

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12 PM: Time To Talk

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Vanessa: It’s time to eat lunch! Please get lunch at this time and tune in with your friends. Good afternoon and welcome back to the 12PM poetrify series.

I also brought my friend today to talk about Robert Frost’s “A Time To Talk” poem today.

“A Time To Talk” :

When a friend calls to me from the road

And slows his horse to a meaning walk,

I don’t stand still and look around

On all the hills I haven’t hoed,

And shout from where I am, ‘What is it?’

No, not as there is a time to talk.

I thrust my hoe in the mellow ground,

Blade-end up and five feet tall,

And plod: I go up to the stone wall

For a friendly visit.

Jose: Hi guys, my name is Jose.

Vanessa: Why did you choose this poem to share today?

Jose: Well… I usually go to Okenshields for lunch I always see people on their phones when they’re eating.

Vanessa: Even when they eating with their friends?

Jose: Yes, both with and without and I think this is a problem

Vanessa: Right, it’s quite sad to see people not interacting in real life.

Jose: That’s the reason why I chose this poem. I want to remind people that they should be open to talking to people in real life and stop staring at their phones.

Vanessa: Do you want to explain the implications and how this poem connects to the lives of the Cornell students?

Jose: Yes— of course.

The hills they “haven’t hoed” could be studying for tests, scrolling through their instagram feed, or

However, Robert Frost urges people to drop whatever they were doing to make time for a “friendly visit.”

The “stone wall” could be the hinderance or the reason why they weren’t able to talk to each other.

Vanessa: Thank you so much for sharing your insights today!

Jose: No problem, I hope everyone can climb up the stone wall for a friendly visit in Okenshields today.

Vanessa: Haha, indeed! I will see you all at 3 pm for more quality content!

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8 AM: Today’s Walk

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Vanessa: Each morning is a blank page ready to be filled with new experiences. Let go of your past failures and be encouraged that a new day gives you the opportunity to reset your life and start anew. Good morning and welcome to the 8 am poetrify series. Vanessa: Today, I am here with Diane Lee to help you start off your day fresh! Diane: Hello, everyone, thank you for having me here today! Vanessa: Good morning, how are you doing today? Diane: I just had a cup of coffee, and I’m feeling extra energized for the day!!! Diane: Because I have 9 am classes every day, I don’t have much time to eat, so I just like getting a simple, refreshing drink. Vanessa: Nice, I think a lot of students with morning classes can relate to that. I also like something fresh and quick in the morning. Diane: Speaking of something fresh and quick, do we also have a fresh and quick poem for our listeners today?

Vanessa: Yes, it’s “Today’s Walk” By Katy Russell:

I will walk slowly through this day; I leave what is not needed behind from yesterday. I will treasure all the knowledge to move forward. What I do today will not change or erase the past.. I move on knowing that today I will do differently than before. If I fail, there will be another tomorrow and a future tomorrow for hope

Diane: Could you explain about this poem? Vanessa: Yes— In the morning, you really don’t have much time to process a large amount of information because you’re usually rushing out to get out of class. So we wanted to give you a poem that is easy to comprehend and has a positive message. The message of this poem is straightforward: don’t dwell on your failures in the past and be hopeful for a new start.

Vanessa: Line 1 tells you to walk “slowly.” This is an important reminder because sometime we tend to rush and overwhelm ourselves with all the work we need to do. Rushing makes us vulnerable to making mistakes therefore it’s crucial to “walk slowly.”

Diane: Lines 2-3 emphasizes the importance of starting with a fresh new mind and learning from your own mistakes to improve.

Vanessa: Lines 4-6 is acknowledging the failures and moving on.

Diane: This poem is a good reminder in the morning, especially as we approach the final exam season here at Cornell. Students at Cornell are very hardworking, ambitious, and have very high expectations for themselves. Students feel extremely pressured to perform well academically, and that anxiety of not being able to do well can sometimes be daunting. If you allow this negative thought to settle in your minds, you will never be able to recover from stressing yourself out too much.

Vanessa: By starting your day right, “you maximize the effective time of positive influence of the ritual on your day” (Moniuszko). The best strategy is to form good habits enclosed in a morning routine, and we want this podcast to be part of your everyday routine.

Vanessa and Diane: With that, thank you, everyone, and we hope to see you again!

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