Every so often some intellectual will go on a talk show and try to convert America to poetry. It always sounds condescending. “Look, you people in suburbia or wherever you are, even you can appreciate poetry. With my help, of course.” Poetry is like beets. You can’t
Ha! Poetry doesn't have to be so snooty, does it? Both my parents loved and could recite poems from Goethe, Burns, Frost or Longfellow and I grew up thinking poetry was approachable and musical.
Sonnets are the best. Only 14 lines, a shade more than Haiku. I chose to memorize some Gerard Manley Hopkins and every Fall and Spring on the golf course I say out loud the words to SPRING AND FALL TO A YOUNG CHILD.......and grieve each time I come to the last line....
I have never “heard” you being so angry, Richard. The only poet I like and “understand” is Alexander Pushkin. (smile) I hope no one will name me . . . Well, you wrote the “appropriate words.”
"Si la société évacue la poésie comme mode d'expression non productif, c'est peut-être que la poésie est un foyer de contestation, un acte de résistance, une incompatibilité fondamentale avec le système dominant ?" (Jean Rouaud)
Ha! Poetry doesn't have to be so snooty, does it? Both my parents loved and could recite poems from Goethe, Burns, Frost or Longfellow and I grew up thinking poetry was approachable and musical.
Lucky you!
Sonnets are the best. Only 14 lines, a shade more than Haiku. I chose to memorize some Gerard Manley Hopkins and every Fall and Spring on the golf course I say out loud the words to SPRING AND FALL TO A YOUNG CHILD.......and grieve each time I come to the last line....
I like Hopkins a lot. Great line of his from "The Wreck of the Deutschland": "Hope had grown grey hairs."
Musical like Dorothy Parker’s “The Little Old Lady in Lavender Silk”. Helps make my day sweeter!
I love Dorothy, but don't know that one!
I read it...liked it and later realized that it is a song. Live and (to) learn!
Oh, I feel this veiled anger in her poems all the time. For a cause as well.
I have never “heard” you being so angry, Richard. The only poet I like and “understand” is Alexander Pushkin. (smile) I hope no one will name me . . . Well, you wrote the “appropriate words.”
Angry for a cause, Marina!
What about Anna Akhmatova?
"Si la société évacue la poésie comme mode d'expression non productif, c'est peut-être que la poésie est un foyer de contestation, un acte de résistance, une incompatibilité fondamentale avec le système dominant ?" (Jean Rouaud)
Political! How did you find that?!?
Yes! Just reading about Rouaud, this morning, one article had this quote. :)