poetry

Nobel prize for literature goes to Bob Dylan BBC If you'd have given me a thousand guesses, I'd not have got that.

Detail-obsessed nitpickers are perfect for this question. :D Here's the manuscript of Emily Dickinson's poem "I started early - Took my Dog" http://www.edickinson.org/editions/1/image_sets/235928 You can blow it up quite far. On the first page, in the left margin by the first verse, there's...

Too obvious, too obscure? August Sunday Afternoon Just touches of yellow and the odd crumble to powder underfoot and across the table hair with equal touches of white Lines etched in her face drawn out from concentration on an object and the paper beneath her hands or cut in from the...

I have a love hate thing with poetry. I think the hate comes in when there is some sort of implication of a message, usually near the end, which is some sort of gotcha line that 'makes the overall point' of the poem, and which I inevitably completely miss. It happens in literature and movies...

https://app.box.com/s/k5uls3zx76qzktpx6hfp1x25p8p91viw As a hobby, I'm typing ten (9 + 1) translations of Dante's Inferno. The link is to a text file with the first canto. I hope to complete the whole Inferno, and post links to each canto. I hope to learn the poem by forcing myself to pay...

Are these old forms of light verse still practiced? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clerihew#Form http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balliol_rhyme The Clerihew is supposed to have an AABB rhyme scheme, which right there puts it out of my poor league. Here’s a sample: Sir James Dewar Is a better man...

A sad passing I had missed until Resume noted it in the "Favorite Poems" thread, but worthy of note by all who value good poetry, Mark Strand died a few days ago. http://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/mark-strand-last-waltz "..Now I lie in the box of my own making while the weather...

This is something I've always wanted to do. After spending some time getting caught up in the latest DOC thread, I had posed the question as to why it's so important for Christians to believe in the literal details of the flood. Isn't heeding the moral lesson of the story more important than...

I have been asked to teach a high school class the poem, The Road Not Taken, by Robert Frost in a 50-minute lesson. I have never taught poetry before and I am really not sure what to do. The idea is to "engage students in the poem by ensuring a thorough understanding and appreciation of its...

A friend of mine posted a poem on Facebook this morning which included the line "it was all a bit Chekhov for any kind of sex" I thought he was using the word Chekhov to signify boring or mundane, but when I asked it turned out he was referring to the frustrating silences common in his plays...

I must have missed it, but it seems that earlier this month Wislawa Szymborska, one of my favorite poets, died. Damn. I was put in mind of one of her poems just yesterday, as I saw a flock of geese flying north in this unusually winterless winter from which the robins and starlings never even...

[ETA: How the heck does one embed youtube videos? Am I missing something? I was in denial about my lack of intelligence, but now I know.] I know she's not very mainstream (or, like, at all), but given the amount of musicophiles, poetry lovers, and literati that inhabit this forum, I'm surprised...

I would appreciate it if someone could help me to find a lovely Japanese haiku that I remember. It was called, I think, 'The butterfly hunter' or some such and was written by a noble lady. I used to know it by heart when I was in my teens, but time and idiocy have stolen my recollection away. I...

James Madison Poem by Peter Flom The "father of the constitution" Was president number four. He was a politician But he was also more. http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/5439402/james_madison_poem.html?cat=37 Just wanted to share this, as a tribute to our greatest Founder, and as...

A surprising and well crafted poem. I liked it very much. LCUYiflkXHc Do you agree or disagree with its message(s)? "...Goodnight and may God B. Less" Try to listen first:

Has anyone around here read any Rumi (1207 – 1273)? Persian poet. I was reading some the other day and I came across a poem that captures how I look at religion, looking beyond the form. The Love religion, the religion of the individual, the religion of the soul. I hope you enjoy it. Moses and...

The Galileo Affair in a Limerick poem While watching a cannonball's motion, Galileo conceived of the notion That natural laws, Not a mystical Cause, Ruled the physical world's locomotion. Though its own view was mostly confused, The Church was not greatly amused With this flaunting of Deo By...

I'll start. Wonder if anyone else did something like this. Sorry for the long post, but I have 3 poems I'd like to share. Sermon Come inside, enjoy the show Bring your kids, come one come all We want best, want you to know You must redeem the fall A message of peace and love we tell You need...

Hi The wind blows cold... harsh, Chilling my poetic soul. Hot-choc'lit haiku!

"I'll be frank with you. I don't spend a lot of time really worrying about short-term history. I guess I don't worry about long-term history, either, since I'm not going to be around to read it." --- George W. Bush And now, the end is near; And so I face the final curtain. My friend, I'll say...

Do you think this poem is suitable for study in school (age 15-16)? Why or why not? For background, see the following pages: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/7594566.stm http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2008/sep/04/gcses.english...

Is there a poetry for the deaf? I can understand that someone who loses their hearing at an age when they have heard and read poetry would still be able to read 'ordinary' poetry and 'hear' it in their head. But, in the case of someone born profoundly deaf? I'd guess that they can 'see' a...

THAT DAY IN FALL That day in Fall the sky was clear Of cloudy hurt and stormy strife. A day of peace unscathed by fear But teeming full with blissful life. Yet on that quiet, noteless date The world we knew became no more. Turned upside down by blind hot hate; From life to death; from peace to...

Two Cheers For Democracy Being a celebration of the 2008 primary season. More specifically, of the fact that it has ended. There was Huckabee, Romney, John Edwards, McCain, and Barack Obama (don't call him "Hussein"!); Giuliani, unfairly lampooned by the press for his habit of wearing a wig...

Homage to a Government (from High Windows, 1974) Next year we are to bring all the soldiers home For lack of money, and it is all right. Places they guarded, or kept orderly, We want the money for ourselves at home Instead of working. And this is all right. It's hard to say who wanted...

OK, I've got myself into a bit of a bind. I've volunteered to put together a poetry quiz for our writer's group Christmas party on Friday. To join in the general celebrations of his life, I wanted to have a Blake round (also, because I'm a massive nerd, I need it to have seven questions, but...

While perusing the forums of John-Keats.com, a website devoted to the great Romantic poet, I came across some posts related to astrology. To my utter dismay, these presumably intelligent people seem to buy into that gibberish. The following, for example, was posted by no less than a Moderator...

This is something I started working on after reading posts at this forum on 9/11 this year. It's only half done, but it's taking longer than expected (and is longer itself, than expected) so I wanted to post what I have so far, before it's too removed from the date itself. Some of the lines...

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Now, In my spare time, I write. I mostly write thoughts and poetry. The only damage that I manage to inflict on myself is to think I have written something good, only to realise how crap most of what I have ever written has been. How pretentious it is, how banal, and how ultimatly meaningless...