re: Ilya - Yes, sadly.
Rollicking sea poem by a master writer... enjoyed :)
"Love at the lips was touch" - Robert Frost; To Earthward... https://eliteskills.com/c/514
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re: Ilya - Yes, sadly.
Rollicking sea poem by a master writer... enjoyed :)
"Love at the lips was touch" - Robert Frost; To Earthward... https://eliteskills.com/c/514
Enjoyed poem and analysis. One language quibble: Earthward translates for me as "in the direction of the earth. What is the "to " doing before the word? For me it sounds like a mistake, but that is impossible.
"My life closed twice before its close;"."Parting" by Emily Elizabeth Dickinson
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com...parting-138001
kind of interpretation:https://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/parting/
In an article brief on google I found a snippet, but couldn't access the full article: from: Getting round: notes towards an 'Ars Poetica.' - Document Gale https://go.gale.com › i.do by P Muldoon · 1998 · Cited by 70 —(ends there)... hence "tautology": "When used purposefully, it can make one’s writing sound more poetic and interesting. It can also help to drive home a point that’s particularly important in a passage."... https://poemanalysis.com/literary-device/tautology/ So Frost is using a bit of "poetic license", as the usage is on purpose.Quote:
`To Earthward'. Isn't that a shade tautological? Wouldn't `Earthward' make the point? My sense is that Frost is appealing to the title-format of `To"
Enjoyed Emily's poem & analysis (couldn't access the first link for some reason). To put a wrinkle in the meaning for me - my faith believes in a pre-mortal existence, so two "closings" proceeding death which lead to "immortality" or "eternal life" (which are differentiated) at the last judgment. It's unlikely Emily had this belief, though she lived in a time when my church was in its infancy, but one could hope :)
In honor of our full moon:
"Now as Heaven is my Lot, they're the Pests of the Nation!" - Samuel Taylor Coleridge; A Soliloquy of the Full Moon, She Being in a Mad Passion... https://eliteskills.com/c/4670
Thanks for this extensive research, tailor. You hit the nail on the head, . I just wanted to know how you native speakers feel about this curious title.
Here are some nice examples of tautology:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tautol...nd%20a%20point.
Found this link about ED's relationship to Church and religion. I hope it opens:
https://youngwritersproject.org/expl...son-and-church
"A Soliloquy of the Full Moon, She Being in a Mad Passion." A cute account of the romantic Moon!
"O bells that rang, O bells that sang". "The Mission Bells of Monterey" by Bret Harte
http://www.online-literature.com/for...63#post1405863
Enjoyed the wiki... Even more so the article on my distant cousin's religious convictions. I'm better acquainted with Eliza R. Snow's sensibilities through her works in my church, another distant cousin poet and hymn writer, who was 25-years Emily's senior and passed on within a year of Emily :)
Enjoyed "Bells"... The link referenced back to LitNet but I found it here... https://www.poetrycat.com/francis-br...ls-of-monterey :)
"Plough, vessel, plough the British main," - Charlotte Bronte; The Missionary... https://www.poetrycat.com/charlotte-...the-missionary
Sorry for the wrong link!
Don't know whether you've read Jane Eyre. One of the characters is a missionary and the poem seems to be made for him.
"Queen and huntress, chaste"."Hymn To Diana" by Ben Jonson
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com...-to-diana-2457
Sadly, no to Jane Eyre.
Wonderful homage poem to Diana :)
"Radishes flip their skirts in the wind" - Lorna Crozier; Radishes... https://readalittlepoetry.com/2011/0...lorna-crozier/
"Radishes"-absolutely charming!
"Santa Ana came storming, as a storm might come;"."The Defence of the Alamo" by Joaquin Miller
http://www.poetryatlas.com/poetry/po...the-alamo.html
Well written poem, albeit glorifying war.
"'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves" - Lewis Carroll; Jabberwocky... https://eliteskills.com/c/2161
re "Defence of Alamo"-Yes, but there seems to be another aspect too: the external bloody battle is compared to the battle against sin.
"I say that the victory, high or low,
Is given the hero who grapples with sin,
Or legion or single; just asking to know
When duty fronts death in his Alamo."
Love Jabberwocky.!
"URANIA, whom the Town admires,"."An EPISTLE from a Gentleman to Madam Deshouliers, returning Money she had lent him at Bassette, upon the first Day of their Acquaintance."(Translated with Liberty from the French)
https://www.eighteenthcenturypoetry....84-w0430.shtml
Oh, I thought the sin referred here was cowardice.
Re; Jabber... - me too :)
Lol... what an odd reason to wax poetically :) Enjoyed!
"visiting a past self. Being anywhere makes me thirsty." - Kaveh Akbar; Being in This World Makes Me Feel Like a Time Traveler... https://readalittlepoetry.com/2020/0...y-kaveh-akbar/
It sounds more generic to me, but you may be right.
Lol! Besides being bountiful with her money, Lady Urania surely possessed personal charm ;).
"Time Traveler". Enjoyed this original poem! And loved this site with its interesting poems and beautiful illustrations.
"Watching the first sunlight"."Wild Oats" by W.S. Merwin
https://readalittlepoetry.com/2021/0...by-w-s-merwin/
Delicate poem... enjoyed very much :) A few words about Merwin's poetry including some on the poem you selected: https://imagejournal.org/2019/03/18/...disappearance/
"X is the Roman notation for ten," - unknown; X is the Roman notation for ten page 3 of 3... https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/cg...ntext=wordways
Loved this article about Merwin's poetry. On Fryday the mother of a very dear friend died at 96.She was losing her memory and her Children told me she was constantly asking for the absent members (including the dead ones) of her family.
"Ye brave old fig-trees! worthy pair!". "The Fig-Trees of Gherardesca" by Walter Savage Landor
http://www.poetryatlas.com/poetry/po...erardesca.html
A tale of doomed fig trees... enjoyed :)
"Zeroes and ones, zeroes and ones," - Sam Fitts; Zeroes and Ones... http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=585106
Just now opened and enjoyed the pages with the poem in X. It wasn´t possible before because I don´t have Acrobat on my tablet.
As for "Zeroes and Ones" I suspect LItnet has a lot!
"A boy told me"."The Rider" by Naomi Shihab Nye
https://readalittlepoetry.com/2011/0...mi-shihab-nye/
Acrobat... Didn't know that was an issue anymore... kind of take it for granted nowadays.
Delicate poem of trying to overcome loneliness. I remember skating alone with the old steel-wheeled skates in my neighborhood in San Mateo, CA (circa, '63 - '66) feeling so free and unalone - imagining all the "miles" going by through all the noisiness the skates made... and yes, bicycles did translate thus. Enjoyed :)
"Be music, night," - Kenneth Patchen; 'Be Music, Night'... https://www.poetryoutloud.org/poem/be-music-night/
"Be music, night,".Beautiful poem!
"COME, gentle God of soft Repose," ."An ODE To SLEEP" by Charlotte Lennox (née Ramsay)
https://www.eighteenthcenturypoetry....47-w0170.shtml
"If sleeping I can still be blest, / Let Life be all a Dream." Enjoyed :)
"Doubt is a storming bull, crashing through" - Safiya Sinclair; The Ragged and the Beautiful... https://www.poetryoutloud.org/poem/t...the-beautiful/
"The Ragged and the Beautiful..." What a beautiful and original way of referring to the emigrant and descendants condition:
"We are strange
and unbelonging. Yes. We are just enough/
of ourselves to catch the wind in our feathers,
and fly so perfectly away.
"Enter without knocking, hard-working ant.". "This Morning" by Charles Simic
https://readalittlepoetry.com/2011/0...charles-simic/
"You visit the same tailors the mourners do,"... enjoyed :)
"Finding a new poet" - Linda Pastan; A New Poet... https://readalittlepoetry.com/2008/0...-linda-pastan/
"Finding a new poet" . "Finding a new poet/is like finding a new wildflower/out in the woods." Charming and simple! Enjoyed!
"For some semitropical reason'."Tarantulas on the Lifebuoy" byThomas Lux
https://readalittlepoetry.com/2012/0...by-thomas-lux/
A touching/tender poem of humanity... enjoyed :)
"Good night! good night! - the golden day" - Pamela S. Vining, (J. C. Yule); Till To-Morrow... https://www.public-domain-poetry.com...o-morrow-34445
Lovely good night poem. Reminded me of this German lullaby (in German and English)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTh-uWq1oOo
"Hail mighty Poet, mighty Painter too,". "To N. Tate, Esq; on his Poem on the Queen's Picture, Drawn by Closterman" by Sarah Fyge Egerton.
https://www.eighteenthcenturypoetry....03-w0550.shtml
Enjoyed the lullaby :)
An homage of an homage to the queen :)
"I know. I know." - Charles Bukowski; My Cats... https://allpoetry.com/poem/14326886-...arles-Bukowski
Sorry! I was quite sure I had answered it.
Aaaaiiiii!Loved Bukowskis cat poem!
"January finally drags into February and one fumbles with"."Paradise" by Louis Jenkins
https://readalittlepoetry.com/2013/0...louis-jenkins/
Wonderful poem: "Some days you want to stay in bed / with the covers over your head and dream of paradise." My idea of paradise :)
"Knowest thou not him the poet sings," - Thomas Moore; The Limbo Of Lost Reputations. A Dream... https://www.public-domain-poetry.com...-a-dream-27241
re: Lol, specially if it's cold.
Reminds me a bit of the "Inferno" in Dante´s "Divine Comedy". Enjoyed!
"What is lost here, is gathered there." ARIOSTO.(Google translation).
Would be fine if it were true of ones memory. Looking for mine for quite a while.
"Life is short, though I keep this from my children.".Good Bones" by Maggie Smith
https://readalittlepoetry.com/2021/0...-maggie-smith/
Too real... enjoyed :)
"MAN above himself looks down upon" - Elise Pumpelly Cabot; Arizona... https://poems.one/poem/elise-pumpelly-cabot-arizona
What is this? Walt Whitman in "Waste Land" mood? Vastness of form and content.
"New eyes each year"."New eyes each year" by Philip Larkin
https://www.poetrycat.com/philip-lar...eyes-each-year
Browser issues again with LitNet: Bad page rendering and keeps signing me out... using Safari for Windows once more... :)
Lol...
Enjoyed Larkin's brief poem :)
"One face looks out from all his canvasses," - Christina Rossetti; 'In An Artist's Studio'... https://eliteskills.com/c/9750
Enjoyed CR´s poem so much: "Not as she is, but as she fills his dream.". Reality against phantasy; Poem against painting.
"Pain froze you, for years—and fear—leaving scars."."The Ghazal of What Hurt" by Peter Cole
https://readalittlepoetry.com/2012/0...by-peter-cole/
Ah, back to Opera Browser again :)
Complex poem. "The pain was never replaced, nor was it quite erased. / It’s memory now"... enjoyed :)
"Queen Hilda rode along the lines" - Henry Lawson; Queen Hilda of Virland
Henry Lawson... https://www.poetry.com/poem/17893/qu...lda-of-virland
Glad Opera works for you. If it doesn't there is always Duck Duck
Didn't find an analysis for Peter Cole's ghazal.
Enjoyed the modern critical take on Queen Hilda . Found a complete version of the poem +a sort analysis:
https://allpoetry.com/Queen-Hilda-of-Virland
"Rebuked, she turned and ran"."Portrait of a Figure near Water" by Jane Kenyon
https://readalittlepoetry.com/2011/1...y-jane-kenyon/
Thanks for the analysis! Didn't notice the poem was incomplete, lol.
Such a poem... the emotion is palpable... enjoyed very much :)
"Suddenly I remember the holes," - Stephen Berg; The Holes... https://readalittlepoetry.com/2005/1...y-stephen-berg
Very original take. Aren't the holes the beginning and the end of all beings?
"Tenderness and rot"."Tenderness and Rot by Kay Ryan
https://readalittlepoetry.com/2011/0...-kay-ryan/amp/
re: holes - I hadn't thought of it that way... this is what touched me: "But I want the infinite man who sleeps / in my veins to rise".
T&R: the political aspects of the poem are obvious; the personal aspects a bit more ambiguous... one of my Daughter's brother-in-laws just passed on due to cancer, age 45 or so; service tomorrow. He tried to turn his life around at the end :) Enjoyed the poem.
"Unbind thee, love, unbind thee, love," - Thomas Moore; Unbind Thee, Love... https://tercul.com/en/works/unbind-t...nguage_code=en
re: Sorry about your daughter's brother-in-law: 45 is so very young and cancer is a devastating illness.
T&R I hadn't thought about the political aspects.
" Uncle he says 'at 'way down in the sea"."Session With Uncle Sidney - II - Uncle Brightens Up" by James Whitcomb Riley
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com...htens-up-29265
Delightful vernacular poem :)
"verily everything that is lost will be" - Safia Elhillo; asmarani makes prayer... https://readalittlepoetry.com/2021/0...safia-elhillo/
"asmarani makes prayer..."Interesting poem, shaped as a wound. Enjoyed.
"We live in a modern society. Husbands and wives don’t grow". "The Archipelago of Kisses" by Jeffrey McDaniel
https://readalittlepoetry.com/2011/0...frey-mcdaniel/