I thought the inconclusive detail was the charm of the poem, but the analysis was very helpful providing context.
Ai!! No comments!
"White in the moonlight"." A Little Memory" by Aldous Huxley
https://allpoetry.com/A-Little-Memory
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I thought the inconclusive detail was the charm of the poem, but the analysis was very helpful providing context.
Ai!! No comments!
"White in the moonlight"." A Little Memory" by Aldous Huxley
https://allpoetry.com/A-Little-Memory
Sorry I touched a nerve...
Google AI Overview: "Visiting the Graves" by Kobayashi Issa is a poignant haiku that captures the speaker's melancholic feelings while visiting a graveyard, expressing a deep sense of empathy for the departed and a reflection on the impermanence of life, often interpreted as a meditation on the cycle of death and the fragility of existence.
Key points about the haiku:
• Simple imagery:
The poem uses simple imagery of visiting graves, which evokes a sense of solemnity and contemplation.
• Emotional depth:
Despite its brevity, the haiku conveys a profound sadness and a deep connection to the deceased.
• Theme of transience:
The act of visiting graves serves as a reminder of the fleeting nature of life.
Possible interpretations:
Personal loss:
• Some readers interpret the poem as a reflection on the poet's own personal loss, possibly related to the death of loved ones.
Universal human experience:
• The poem can also be seen as a broader reflection on the universal experience of grief and mortality. "
Enjoyed the poem and summary :)
"XY:" - J.K. Daniels; XY: XX: XZ... https://www.beltwaypoetry.com/daniels-j-k/
Thanks for the Google overview. This poem is very suggestive!
"XY"- shrew, intelligent poem!
"Yes, thou art gone! and never more"."Yes Thou Art Gone!" by Anne Brontë
https://allpoetry.com/Yes-Thou-Art-Gone!
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Not letting me post... prolly due to copying my response in case it blows up.
Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor
Enjoyed :)
Enjoyed AB's homage poem :) Was curious of whom she wrote of... speculative, but perhaps a good possibility: https://literature.stackexchange.com...ence-addressed
"zebra rider was prancing around the town" - PinkFaerie5; notorious zebra rider... https://allpoetry.com/poem/17270560-...by-PinkFaerie5
Weird... took out one link and it worked. The link was the corrected link to AB's poem because the last exclamation point got chopped off... go figger.
PS... putting an exclamation point inside parentheses is apparently a no-no.
Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor
Same thing happened to me some days ago. I had to choose another poem to be able to post.Quote:
Originally Posted by tailor STATELY
Yes, I knew about this curate, but forgot to mention it. There is no evidence of her being in love with him, but in her novel Agnes Grey, the protagonist falls in love with a young curate. In the novel they marry and live "happily ever after".
Enjoyed the notorious rider. What would "Z" poems do without the zebra?
"Alexander "Greek Prince '"."ALEXANDER" by eftichia kapardeli
https://www.best-poems.net/about_poetry/alexander.html
An homage to Alexander the Great by an accomplished poet, and more... Enjoyed :)
"Beside an ebbing northern sea" - Sara Teasdale; By The Sea... https://allpoetry.com/poem/8504403-B...-Sara-Teasdale
So true this picture of conflicting feelings. ST has become a favorite with me. :)
A poem, also by ST which could be an answer to "By the Sea":
"Child, child, love while you can"."Child, Child" by Sara Teasdale
https://allpoetry.com/Child,-Child
ST: Me too :)
"Never fear the thing you feel — / Only by love is life made real;" :)
Staying with Sara... "Deep in the night the cry of a swallow," Deep In The Night... https://allpoetry.com/Deep-In-The-Night
Beautiful iove poem, read at 9 minutes of 2025!
"Evenings in trains,"."Return From Business" by Aldous Leonard Huxley
https://allpoetry.com/Return-From-Business
Reading at 12 minutes of Midnight... will toast in the New Year with Cran*Raspberry drink in a blue fluted festive glass, with Tinker Bell (my cat) :)
Love Huxley's language: "little black twittering ghosts" Enjoyed :)
"Friend forever in the light" - John Banister Tabb; To My Shadow... https://www.litscape.com/author/John...My_Shadow.html
... 'tis 6 minutes before...
Ai! Remember a new year having a snack with Tino, my long deceased cat! Cranberry is good for the kidneys, so excellent choice for a new year drink.
"To My Shadow..."." A shadowy poem.
"God sent us here to make mistakes,". "Mistakes" by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
https://www.litscape.com/author/Ella.../Mistakes.html
sigh... so true, Enjoyed :)
"Hail, bright blossoming hawthorn-tree," - John Payne; To the Hawthorn-tree... https://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/content/hawthorn-tree
Particularly liked the ryth rhythm of the Paine poem.
"It is portentous, and a thing of state"'."Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight
Vachel Lindsay
https://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/cont...lks-midnight#1
https://poemanalysis.com/vachel-lind...s-at-midnight/
Enjoyed :) "It breaks his heart that kings must murder still,"... powerful. Enjoyed the analysis. We have a poet in our group who often uses theatrical voice in his poetry, reminding me of VL :)
"Joy to have merited the Pain—" - Emily Dickinson; Joy to have merited the Pain... https://allpoetry.com/Joy-to-have-merited-the-Pain
Impressive poem! The idea of joy growing out of the experience of pain is very powerful. And given her religious spirit, she isn't talking about human love.
"Kuno Kohn sings:".."Wanderer in the Evening"; by Alfred Lichtenstein
https://allpoetry.com/Wanderer-In-The-Evening
Enjoyed the minimalism used and the summary :)
"Lo, a pallid fleecy vapour" - George Borrow; Sadness... https://www.poemine.com/George-Borrow/Sadness.html
Oh my! This IS sad! Read in Borrow's bio that he had contact with German Romanticism. So there we are!
"my parents were born from a car. they climbed out"."now i’m bologna". By José Olivarez
https://www.poetryoutloud.org/poem/now-im-bologna/
https://frostplace.wordpress.com/202...4/bologna-day/
"people are overrated. give me avocados."... Lol. Enjoyed the poem and the brief summary/interpretation :)
"Norse am I when the first snow falls;" - Wilson Pugsley MacDonald; The Song of the Ski... https://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/content/song-ski
Enjoyed very much this daring poem! Mac Donald is more than only burgers! Happy not too cold winter!
"O WINTER! frozen pulse and heart of fire,"."January" by Helen Hunt Jackson
https://www.theotherpages.org/poems/hhj02.html#32
Poor beekeeper... Enjoyed :)
"Publication—is the Auction" - Emily Dickinson; Publication—is the Auction... https://allpoetry.com/Publicationis-the-Auction
An for me unexpected theme coming from ED. Enjoyed and the analysis was very helpful to understand the poem.
A poem by a poet with name beginning with "Q".
"WE lit a fire, and straightway camped"."After Cattle" by Roderic Quinn
https://www.poetrynook.com/poem/after-cattle
Like a dream in passing; RQ's bio: https://allpoetry.com/Roderic-Quinn Enjoyed :)
"Ring out the bells of heaven!" - Nancy Rebecca Campbell Glass; Ring The Bells... https://allpoetry.com/Ring-The-Bells
Thanks! Although shorter than the bio of poemine this one is better written.
Great hymn!
"So many stones have been thrown at me,"."Solitude" by Anna Akhmatova
https://ruverses.com/anna-akhmatova/solitude/
I'm sure the translation(s) don't do the poem justice... I lean towards "solitude" as opposed to "loneliness" which supports: "And the Muse’s sunburnt hand / Divinely light and calm / Finishes the unfinished page." I enjoy when my muse(s) take me into realms unknown. Bio: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_A...nist%20terror. Enjoyed very much :)
"Three hours ago he blundered up the trench," - Siegfried Sassoon; The Working Party... https://www.poemine.com/Siegfried-Sa...ing-Party.html
I believe you are right. Sadly we don't know Russian. Thanks for the bio. I knew that she was a Russian dissident,but didn't have more details.
Terrible, forceful poem by Sasson.
"Unto my Books — so good to turn —"Unto my Books — so good to turn —" by Emily Dickinson
https://bloggingdickinson.blogspot.c...d-to-turn.html comments are interesting too.
Finding passion and solace within her world of books... Loved this satirical comment: "Friends in the bar think I'm spending too much time with this difficult girlfriend. One even told me to "get rid of her"."... lol. Enjoyed :)
"Volcanoes be in Sicily" - Emily Dickinson; Volcanoes be in Sicily... https://allpoetry.com/poem/14326735-...mily-Dickinson
Enjoyed the play with the volcanos in ED's poem. Might they not be symbolic?
"With my whole body I taste these peaches,"."A Dish Of Peaches In Russia" by Wallace Stevens
https://allpoetry.com/A-Dish-Of-Peaches-In-Russia
Symbolic: Found this: https://journeys.dartmouth.edu/white...-on-volcanoes/
Nostalgia and peaches... Enjoyed :)
"X Y And Tumble Down Z" - FunKids Cartoons; X Y And Tumble Down Z... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMj7x9_v2Lc
Loved your discovery. It makes all the sense with the poem. But I also figure an subdued internal volcano of passion.
Lol!Enjoyed very much this alphabetic tumbledown ;)
"You are riding the bus again"."To Myself" by Frank Wright
https://readalittlepoetry.com/2012/0...-franz-wright/
Been on I 80, Colfax to Sacramento. Strange poem... google AI Overview: "Franz Wright's poem “To Myself” is about the speaker being with someone who is riding the bus alone. The speaker describes themselves as the fields, the rain, and the loneliness the person loves. The speaker also promises to hold the person if they vomit and to buy them a sandwich.
Wright's poems often explore themes of isolation, illness, spirituality, and gratitude. He was born in Vienna, Austria and grew up in the Midwest, Northwest, and California. His father was the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet James Wright.
To Myself | The Poetry Foundation"... Enjoyed :)
"Zebra stripes move and shift," - matt at shadow of iris; Zebra Stripes... https://www.shadowofiris.com/zebra-stripes-poem/
1.80 Colfax.Is this a Bus or a Train line?
Didn’t find any analysis this time. Considered the poem interesting but somewhat schizophren, as the lyrical I is writing to himselfas if to another person.
"A monster like a mountain, leathern limbed,"Megalosauros" by Babette Deutsch
https://allpoetry.com/Babette-Deutsch
I 80 is a major US West<>East corridor for cars and trucks and buses... a train system parallels this corridor for the most part I believe. Interstates that are divisible by 2 are West<>East, those not are North<>South.
Enjoyed the monster poem and its summary :)
"Buildings above the leafless trees" - Sara Teasdale; Central Park At Dusk... https://allpoetry.com/Central-Park-At-Dusk
I see.Thanks for the explanation!
I forgot to mention in the last post, that I enjoyed the Zebra stripes poem.
Wonderful poem by ST about Central Park at dusk. Reminds me of the one time I visited Central Park with my father. It was not at dusk, but it wast a wonderful
view. For the first time I saw a real squirrel and it was sitting peacefully on my hand and eating a nut.
"Childhood, sweet and sunny childhood,".Childhood Bates, David (1809 - 1870)
https://allpoetry.com/poem/8456113-C...by-David-Bates
What a wonderful memory !!! I want to see NYC before I leave this mortal coil.
Tender words of wisdom... Enjoyed the poem and the summary :)
"Drake he's in his hammock an' a thousand mile away," - Newbolt Henry John; Drake's Drum... https://www.johnderbyshire.com/Readings/drakesdrum.html
Enjoyed the poem and the explanations!
"Ere is the chamber consecrate,"."Bien Loin D'Ici by Charles Baudelaire
https://www.poetrycat.com/charles-ba...bien-loin-dici
Other translations which gives the poem added nuance: https://fleursdumal.org/poem/316 Enjoyed :)
"For this the fruit, for this the seed," - John Banister Tabb; Blossom... https://www.litscape.com/author/John...b/Blossom.html