name association game

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I miss the animals in this garden

Sylvia Plath
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylvia_Plath
http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/brasilia/

Good rest!
Sorry for the repeated posts from yesterday!

I remember paperleaves (one of my favorite poets on LitNet: http://www.online-literature.com/for...archid=3109334 ) used that picture of Sylvia shown on wikipedia as her avatar. SP: A tragic short life for a poet with so much talent. I can appreciate her struggles with depression. An observation about her poem (also note the sculpture "Os Candangos"): https://truthandrocketscience.com/20...rsos-of-steel/

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyotr_Ilyich_Tchaikovsky

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_WWz2DSnT8

SP-Tks!Great found, Tailor, for a better understanding of her poem! Brasilia is a social utopia wrought in stone. Now it is the heart of the countries rottenness. I was once there. The city has is magic though with is setorized "wings" and its futuristic (but now old) architecture. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscar_Niemeyer (Note: I live close to Edifício Copan, today a badly kept building which is slowly been repaired.)

T-Just listening to the music!

Tomaso Albinoni

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomaso_Albinoni

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_eLU5W1vc8Y

The music was very nice... I had no problem with buffering until the last 5-minutes. ON: I remember studying Brazil c.1965/66 and being fascinated with the concept of the new capital Brasilia. What a long life; intriguing architecture... glad to know restorations are being made to his Edifício Copan. I had no idea Sao Paulo was so large http://www.worldatlas.com/citypops.htm ; I've always lived in the county or suburban areas so I cannot relate to LARGE city life. TA: A loss of artistic works due to the Dresden bombings, so sad. The Adagio in G minor is beautiful. I enjoy the Baroque period of music immensely. I also sampled one of his oboe works "Oboe Concerto in D minor": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgcOz2iZy1M

Alice Moore-Dunbar-Nelson... https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poe...-dunbar-nelson

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poe...s/detail/52759

Time to rest :)

TA:I enjoyed the oboe concert.I don´t know what buffering is, but it is a sound defect there are other versions of the Adagio. My devices are basic, the sounds are usually ok but not excellent.
São Paulo is a smaller New York. You have a lot of facilities when you live in a large city, but also ´the problems of a large city. I guess living in the country is healthier and less expensive.
AL-Interesting feminist poem-The contrast between the men that go to the battle fields and the women that are limited to the space of the home with its home tasks. But I guess all that´s changing now as the battlefields don´t have boundaries any more.

Nat King Cole

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1glriB54oE

NKC: Big fan... remember him on the telly.

Charlie Parker... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Parker

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LphuCadyQi0

CP-I´ll come back for him

Paulo Lins

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/26/wo...inds-fame.html

PL: Interesting bio; an uncommon voice.

Lois Mailou Jones... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lois_Mailou_Jones

https://www.google.com/search?q=Lois...w=1093&bih=534

Very modern aesthetics:https://www.google.com.br/search?q=L...U1rn2VURpNM%3A

Julia Lopes de Almeida
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%B...pes_de_Almeida

JLdA: a pioneer way ahead of her time.

Alissa J. Rubin... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alissa_J._Rubin

AR-Amazing woman!

Ruy Guerra

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruy_Guerra

Quite accomplished. Tragic the loss of his first wife.

Guy de Maupassant... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy_de_Maupassant

GM- A famous short story: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/3090/....htm#2H_4_0003


Mário de Sá Carneiro
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%A...C3%A1-Carneiro

http://sa-carneiro.blogspot.com.br/

GdM: I will look at the short stories later. MdSA: Fanciful poetry; these I can imagine as being performed. So Sad. Depression and a life thrown away too early.

Stephen Fry... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Fry

SF-Multiple talents! This guy has been looking for him:
https://www.vagalume.com.br/zeca-bal...hen-fry-2.html

Fernando Pessoa (my favorite Portuguese poet)

http://www.poetryinternationalweb.ne...ernando-Pessoa (unfortunately they have taken the other links out it seems

"Autopsychography"

(Poets feign and conceal
So completely feign and pretend
That the pain which they really feel
They'll feign for you in the end

And he who reads what they've done
Never senses the twofold pain
That's in them, only the one
Which they never feel but feign

And so, to amuse our minds
Round again to the start
On its circular railway winds
That toy train called the heart.)

—Michael Hamburger
http://disquiet.com/thirteen.html

"Autopsychography"

The poet is a born pretender
So well does he pretend
That he affects to feel
The pain he feels in the end

And those that read his writings
Never feel his twofold pain
But just the one
That´s not in them

And so turning his wheels
Entertaining reason with art
Girates this mechanism
That we call the heart.
(My attempt, after reading the other ones)

SF: I found a terrible translation of the poem, but I think I get the gist: Where to walk Stephen Fry where you'll walk/Stephen Nobody knows of his whereabouts/nobody knows where he was to where he may be/feeling all alone/ Stephen never do this again/come back home/ if you run the bug takes Stephen/if you stay the beast eats. FP: Very complex: "... horoscope charts Pessoa devised for his three most important heteronyms" - intriguing. Enjoyed the following poem:

Quote:

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The Herdsman
BY ALBERTO CAEIRO (FERNANDO PESSOA)
TRANSLATED BY EDOUARD RODITI

I'm herdsman of a flock.
The sheep are my thoughts
And my thoughts are all sensations.
I think with my eyes and my ears
And my hands and feet
And nostrils and mouth.

To think a flower is to see and smell it.
To eat a fruit is to sense its savor.

And that is why, when I feel sad,
In a day of heat, because of so much joy
And lay me down in the grass to rest
And close my sun-warmed eyes,
I feel my whole body relaxed in reality
And know the whole truth and am happy.

---

Pam Ayers... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pam_Ayres

http://www.poetryarchive.org/poem/woodland-burial

SF-The text of the song is not good (but the translation makes it worse) that´s why I didn´t provide the translation. I only found it remarcable that someone made a song called "Looking for Stephen Fry" Note: "if you run the bug takes Stephen/if you stay the beast eats" (for Heaven´s sake!). When someone is in a fix we say: if you run the beast gets you/if you stay the beast devours you!"
FP-Among other things FP worked at an astrologer. I saw his char made by himself. He himself was gemini (multiple identities heteronyms among other things), ascendent in Skorpio (interest in religion and occultism)
PA-Beautiful Poems. Maybe a Portuguese descendence (surname and looks).

Antero de Quental
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antero_de_Quental

http://www.poetryinternationalweb.ne.../DIVINE-COMEDY

SF: lol re: translation. AdQ: His poem reflects his faith to a "t"; too sad. One of my sisters resigned to her fate in a similar manner about 10-years ago; reading of AdQ's demise brings back the pain. On a lighter note I may check out his sonnets; the sonnet is a form I've tried with limited success, and yet some poets can create them with no trouble at all.

Quentin Blake... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quentin_Blake

https://www.brainpickings.org/2013/0...quentin-blake/

AdQ:Sorry, I didn´t want to evoque painful memories.AdQ is aleading Portuguese poet, but some of these poets are very anguished.
QB-Loved his cartoons. Time to get back to humour.

Bronislaw Malinowski
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bronis...MalinowskiAdQ:

BM: Fixed link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bronisław_Malinowski ... Anthropology is a fascinating study.

Mina Loy... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mina_Loy

http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/moreover-the-moon/

Tks for fixing the link. ML-Very modern and difficulty to conciliate art and life. Female names very often remain in the background of the movemenst (but not of our antology).


Lygia Pape
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lygia_Pape

https://www.artsy.net/artist/lygia-pape/works

LP: The aesthetics of her art are so over my head.

Piper Laurie... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piper_Laurie

LP- Maybe you don´t like concretism. I don´t so much.
PL- I didn´t see the horror film Carrie, a blockbuster at the time or I would have known her

Laura Kasischke
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poe...aura-kasischke
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poe...ontentId=38086

LK: Had to read the poem many times to get the full impact... enjoyed.

Kay Ryan... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kay_Ryan

http://poemhunter.blogspot.com/2007/...sider-art.html

KR- Very modern, original images!

Renée Ashley

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ren%C3%A9e_Ashley
http://omniverse.us/poetry-renee-ashley/

RA: Interesting technique/narrative.

Ashley Bryan... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashley_Bryan

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIMX9e2rcJw

Very interesting and very instructive! I loved the children book

Babette Deutsch

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babette_Deutsch

http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/lioness-asleep/

BD: Enjoyed her sonnet... interesting that she fudged on the penultimate line - https://www.howmanysyllables.com/words/prisoner and used a sight rhyme for L11 and L14.

D.H. Lawrence... https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poet/d-h-lawrence

http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/butterfly-8/

BD-Can´t say. Maybe it was on purpose.
D.H. Lawrence- Know his prose. I prefer his short stories to his novels.

Lope de Vega (Spanish Golden Age Baroque)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lope_de_Vega

http://www.poetry-archive.com/v/tomorrow.html

LdV: Most prolific. HWL's translation of "Tomorrow" is quite beautiful.

Violette Reine Elizabeth Szabo... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rwdk9JI8suE

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Violette_Szabo

VS- I am very impressed with the courage and the story of this woman soldier of World War II which used a poem as code.

Speaking of fight and courage I must again interrupt the alphabetical sequence:

Teori Zavascki
https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...es-plane-crash

So sad to hear. Tragic.

Zoë Akins... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoë_Akins

https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/i-am-the-wind-3/

ZA-Loved the poem. It seems that some of her films where shown here.

Ama Ata Aidoo
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ama_Ata_Aidoo

https://kinnareads.com/2013/07/07/fo...ama-ata-aidoo/

AAA: A rather nice piece on an ancestor, if I scan properly, of renown.

A. E. Housman... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A._E._Housman

https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/love...he-cherry-now/

Housman-A beautiful poem about ageing!


Hartley Coleridge

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hartley_Coleridge

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poe...s/detail/52335

H.C.: Sweet sonnet, especially these two lines: Herself her all, she lives in privacy; God must be with her in her solitude!

Clara Blackwood... http://thetorontoquarterly.blogspot....ies-clara.html

https://clarablackwood.wordpress.com

CB-Interesting modern poem.

Bella Thorne

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bella_Thorne

Quite the young success story.

Theodore Roethke... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore_Roethke

https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/dolor/