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re: The Burden Of Itys - The version I linked to is the most egregious and ridiculous example of censorship I've ever seen; organ, weed, virgin, murder, thrust, lusty, slope (yeah, sure), bloody... just crazy in the context of the poem's lines/stanzas. Rant ends here.
re: Unrisen splendour of the brightest sun - reads like a poem about depression to me.
"A void is in the sky!" - Mary Gardiner Horsford; The Lost Pleiad.... https://www.poetrycat.com/mary-gardi...he-lost-pleiad
re: The Burden Of Itys -So You can imagine the perplexity of a non native.
https://artsandculture.google.com/as...00000003%7D%7D
"We came from our own country in a red room" Originally (1990)by Carol Ann Duffy
https://www.poetrybyheart.org.uk/poems/originally/
Pleides:
https://www.google.com/search?q=plei...t=opera&hs=R8I
Beautiful statue, perhaps Merope, as I peruse wikipedia: "The loss of one of the sisters, Merope, in some myths may reflect an astronomical event wherein one of the stars in the Pleiades star cluster disappeared from view by the naked eye."... "Merope, youngest of the Pleiades.[19] In other mythic contexts, she married Sisyphus[20] and, becoming mortal, faded away. Merope bore Sisyphus several sons including Glaucus."
re: Originally... I can relate to this poem in more than some little measure. Interesting poet. Enjoyed very much :)
"Xylophone" - Ramesh Anand; Xylophone...
https://www.poetrysoup.com/poem/xylophone_455369
"Xylophone" -Interesting nanopoem
"You appear," You by Rafael Cadenas
https://poems.com/poem/you/
re: You - Incredible poem :)
"Zoning" - Jerry Wayne Lawrence, Jr. Z.O.N.E.... https://www.poetry.com/poem/118387/z.o.n.e.
Zone- Condensed and to the point.
"America, from a grain" Ode To Maize by Pablo Neruda
http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets...da/poems/15747
Great poem :)
"Blest be the day, and blest the month, the year," - Francesco Petrarca; Benedetto sia 'l giorno e 'l mese e l' anno. / He Blesses All the Circumstances of His Passion.... https://www.poetrycat.com/francesco-...a/sonnet-xlvii
A beautiful poem by Petrarca. I preferred the second version, very fluid. somewhat Shakesperian!
"THE city's all a-shining". Paris in Spring in HELEN OF TROY and OTHER POEMS by Sara Teasdale
https://www.theotherpages.org/poems/...elen03.html#13
Yes, well... https://penandthepad.com/petrarchan-...ent-21847.html
Lighthearted Paris in Spring :)
"Dot a dot dot dot a dot dot" - Eve Merriam; Weather Poem... https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/weather-2/
Enjoyed very much this link, itīs a real lesson on poetry.
"Weather Poem". Charming onomatopoeic poem!
Breaking a bit the rules, but maintaining the spirit of "E"
"Today we celebrate the letter E." "The Letter E" by Jim Yerman
https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-letter-e/
The Letter E: very light hearted poem by a contemporary poet... who evidently died in 2451.
"From the form legs curve up" - Sadiqullah Khan; *delayed Gratification... https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/delayed-gratification/
Lol! I think these poems are numbered!
*delayed Gratification-an intense and beautiful poem!
"Grandmother's mother: her age, I guess," Dorothy Q by Oliver Wendell Holmes
https://www.litscape.com/author/Oliv...Dorothy_Q.html
Oh!
re: Dorothy Q... wonderful family history poem !
"He opens the scullery door, and a sudden rush" - Paul Muldoon; Tell... https://www.poetrycat.com/paul-muldoon/tell
"Tell" Interesting and intriguing poem. I didnīt find any direct analysis but found the Swiss legend that probably inspired the poem:
"William Tell
The best-known version of the (apple shot) story is in the legend of William Tell, supposedly happening to start off the Swiss revolution, written first in the 15th-century White Book of Sarnen, then in Aegidius Tschudi's 16th-century Chronicon Helveticum, and later the basis for Friedrich Schiller's 1804 play. Tell is arrested for failing to bow in respect to the hat that the newly appointed Austrian Vogt, Albrecht Gessler, has placed on a pole, and Gessler commands him to shoot an apple off his son's head with a single bolt from his crossbow. After splitting the apple with the single shot (supposedly on November 18, 1307), Tell is asked why he took more than one bolt out; at first he responds that it was out of habit, but when assured he will not be killed for answering honestly, says the second bolt was meant for Gessler's heart should he fail. In Schiller's play, the demand to shoot the apple off the boy's head motivates Gessler's murder."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooti...child%27s_head
"I know a little language of my cat, though Dante says" A Little Language by Robert Duncan
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poe...ittle-language
Enjoyed the various takes on William Tell, but felt that another layer of the poem needed to be bared...
I tried some research for "Tell" and the phrase ""bloodshed" and the "peelers."" stood out and led me to "peelers" having a propensity for mayhem (oft times as police/bobbies) and ultimately to:
see pg 99 & 100 at https://digitalcommons.lsu.edu/cgi/v..._dissertations
LSU Doctoral Dissertations Toward a Northern Irish Pastoral: Reading the Rural in Seamus Heaney and Paul Muldoon... Stephanie Jean & Osburn Krassenstein Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College.
Robert Duncan's poem also caused a bit of quandary till I discovered his origins... as befitting my curiosity I found a children's intro/bio to his poetic machinations: https://kids.kiddle.co/Robert_Duncan_(poet) ... then words like "rainbow" and the need for a little (separate) language made a little more sense.
"joggle i think will do it although the glad" - e.e. cummings; GERT... https://cummings.ee/book/is-5/poem/five-americans-iii/