Lol... thank you for your contribution... please drop in any timeForgive my chiming in.
Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor
Lol... thank you for your contribution... please drop in any timeForgive my chiming in.
Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor
tailor
who am I but a stitch in time
what if I were to bare my soul
would you see me origami
7-8-2015
You are welcome !
"I seemed to have sensed also from an early age that some of my experiences as a reader would change me more as a person than would many an event in the world where I sat and read. "
Gerald Murnane, Tamarisk Row
Quote Originally Posted by tailor STATELY View Post
Walter de la Mare's poem is quite enigmatic. I found a critique of "The Listeners" that opened more questions than resolved...
https://www.litbug.com/2021/08/14/th...-and-analysis/
Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor
He seems to me as a supernaturalistic poet. Some of his poems are considered to be written for children, but they do not sound to me like it. They are just full of symbilistic meanings, like
Someone
by Walter de la Mare
Someone came knocking
At my wee, small door;
Someone came knocking,
I'm sure — sure — sure;
I listened, I opened,
I looked to left and right,
But nought there was a-stirring
In the still, dark night;
Only the busy beetle
Tap-tapping in the wall,
Only from the forest
The screech owl's call,
Only the cricket whistling
While the dewdrops fall,
So I know not who came knocking,
At all, at all, at all.
I, simply, adore his style. But, again... maybe I am childish... LOL
A poem of this genre is one of my favorites...
Antigonish - Hughes Mearns
Yesterday, upon the stair,
I met a man who wasn't there
He wasn't there again today
I wish, I wish he'd go away...
When I came home last night at three
The man was waiting there for me
But when I looked around the hall
I couldn't see him there at all!
Go away, go away, don't you come back any more!
Go away, go away, and please don't slam the door... (slam!)
Last night I saw upon the stair
A little man who wasn't there
He wasn't there again today
Oh, how I wish he'd go away...
Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor
Last edited by tailor STATELY; 01-03-2023 at 06:36 PM. Reason: syntax
tailor
who am I but a stitch in time
what if I were to bare my soul
would you see me origami
7-8-2015
tailor, "You are talking my language!"Originally Posted by tailor STATELY
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