re: Larkin - Wow... that's a great find and a lot more than I got out of it
re: The Lake - Enigmatic; I had to find help on this one... https://www.enotes.com/homework-help...ing-say-278442
"Valley, which long hast echoed with my cries;" - Francesco Petrarca; To Laura In Death. Sonnet XXXIII. Valle che d' lamenti miei se' piena. / On His Return to Vaucluse After Laura's Death... https://www.poetrycat.com/francesco-...-sonnet-xxxiii
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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
Thanks for the link on The Lake, tailor. I think though that there is more to it. "Months have passed since, well,
everything." The poem doesn´t reveal, what this everything is, but it may be the clue of the poem. It may represent a general event like a flood, for example, or a personal experience of the "I" of the poem.
Sonnet XXXIII by Petrarca. I have the feeling that the second translation is more faithful to the original
Including "U". "Under a daisied bank". The Milkmaid by Thomas Hardy
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/thomas-hardy
"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
oops...
"the milk purrs in the pail"Quite poetic ! I looked for an analysis and got sidetracked; found a short story by Hardy, The Romantic Adventures of a Milkmaid, on Project Gutenberg which in the reading I thought might answer a question or two. A delightful read - it did enlighten me perhaps.
"Woodcutter." - Federico García Lorca; Song of the Barren Orange Tree... https://hellopoetry.com/poem/620120/...n-orange-tree/
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
re: Going to look for the short story
Lorca is one of mY favorite poets. I like his dramatic intensity, which is a bit less visible in the translation
Found this charming analysis of the poem:
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/har...en-orange-tree
"You can keep your antique silver and your statuettes of bronze," My Old Football by John Milton Hayes
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/john-milton-hayes
"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
re: Lorca - Wonderful analysis ! I hadn't considered the second interpretation at all... a very deep poem.
re: Football - Interesting life and war story woven around a football metaphor... enjoyed.
"Zero things come to mind." - Nick Randall; Zero Things... https://tdc.ds106.us/writings/zero-things/
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
"Zero things come to mind." Curious poem. You always manage to find new "Z" poems.
"At five in the afternoon." From Lament for Ignacio Sánchez Mejías by Lorca (it´s about the death of a famous bull fighter. I usually wouldn´t chose a poem about bullfight, but it is Lorca at his most dramatic).
https://www.poetryintranslation.com/...20Goring%20and
"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
An event etched in time.
"Beneath a broad grey sky, upon a vast and dusty plain devoid of grass, and where not even a nettle or a thistle was to be seen, I met several men who walked bowed down to the ground." - Charles Baudelaire; Every Man His Chimera... https://www.poetrycat.com/charles-ba...an-his-chimera
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
Every Man His Chimera... Impressive in form and content!
"A Charm invests a face" A Charm invests a face by Emily Dickinson
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Author:Emily_Dickinson
"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
A truly charming poem; a little help here... https://emily-dickinson-riddle.blogs...kled-girl.html
"Dead! Where the bold and brave" - A. H. Laidlaw; The Custer Wail.... https://www.poetrycat.com/a-h-laidlaw/the-custer-wail
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
By trying discover who Custer was I hit on this:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle...Little_Bighorn.
"Early within his workshop here,"Explanation Of An Ancient Woodcut, Representing Hans Sachs' Poetical Mission by by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
https://www.poetrycat.com/johann-wol...-A%20poem%20by
"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
Interesting wikipedia article. A series of unfortunate events including not utilizing the WMD of the day by the protagonists... a bloody mess.
A Word Can poem I wrote that is yet unedited and untitled from yesterday's Thursdays at Two poetry group using the words kitty-corner/shallow/bury/bunk/invoke/indigenous:
yet untitled
invocations for the indiginous peoples
I dream snug in my bunkbed
kitty-corner to a western tableau
yet too shallow to muffle their cries
3/16/2023
re: "Woodcut... " In my attempt to find the original German version (to see the original rhyme scheme) I found this addendum to the poem:... https://www.hellenicaworld.com/Germa...sOfGoethe.html[I feel considerable hesitation in venturing to offer this version of a poem which Carlyle describes to be 'a beautiful piece (a very Hans Sacks beatified, both in character and style), which we wish there was any possibility of translating.' The reader will be aware that Hans Sachs was the celebrated Minstrel- Cobbler of Nuremberg, who Wrote 208 plays, 1700 comic tales, and between 4000 and 5000 lyric poems. He flourished throughout almost the whole of the 16th century.]
... ""I, to ordain thee come," she spake:
"So prosper, and my blessing take!
The holy fire that slumb'ring lies
Within thee, in bright flames shall rise;"
Incredible poem.
"From Brooklyn, over the Brooklyn Bridge, on this fine morning," - Elizabeth Bishop; Invitation to Miss Marianne Moore... https://www.blueridgejournal.com/poems/eb-invit.htm
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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
I´m glad you haven´t given up poetry. Enjoyed the poem. Used to have the feeling that a cat bunker protected against the suffering world outside. But it was a fallacious feeling.
Found a link to Goethe´s poem about Hans Sachs in German:
https://www.projekt-gutenberg.org/go...e/chap274.html
Invitation to Miss Marianne Moore... What a beautiful, imaginative poem!
"GOLDEN sun of victory, born" To My Children by Sarojini Naidu
http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets...idu/poems/4585
"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
Thank you! Lol... no I haven't given up on poetry, perhaps a bit fallow with expectations for poetry month that is arriving swiftly in AprilOriginally Posted by Danik 2016
- Oh, if this were trueUsed to have the feeling that a cat bunker protected against the suffering world outside. But it was a fallacious feeling.
- Will have to revisitFound a link to Goethe´s poem about Hans Sachs in German:
https://www.projekt-gutenberg.org/go...e/chap274.html
-Invitation to Miss Marianne Moore... What a beautiful, imaginative poem!
- Wonderful blessings to her children"GOLDEN sun of victory, born" To My Children by Sarojini Naidu
http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets...idu/poems/4585
"Here lies a man cut off by fate" - Friedrich Schiller; Epitaph.... https://www.public-domain-poetry.com.../epitaph-30675
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
"If I forget thee, Jerusalem," If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem by Yehuda Amichai
http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets...ichai/poems/77
"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
Taken in part from Psalm 137... https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/...s/137?lang=eng
Found an interesting point and counterpoint in analysis... https://mypoetryforpeace.weebly.com/...jerusalem.html
"Jorge, no matter where we go together" - Sarina Romero; To Jorge Luis Borges... https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poe...ge-luis-borges
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
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