name association game

BB-I thought maybe you know some of his hymns.
BG-Interesting influences. Noticed the modernist touch in her poem.

Gavin Ewart
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gavin_Ewart

http://www.poetryarchive.org/poem/14...ent-cat-winter

BB: Looked for some hymns he wrote I might know with no luck... http://hymnary.org/person/Barton_B
GE: https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Gavin_Ewart ... reminiscent of Biggus in some poems. Cute poem, I have similar hopes for my aged Taffy Doodles.

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

http://classicalarthistory.weebly.co...heduanna-poems

GE: I hope Mr.Taffy Doodles will still enjoy several summers surrounded by his loving family.
E:Phantastic! Much earlier than Homer, a woman poet, writing about gods and wars.

Eavan Boland
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eavan_Boland
https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/ode-to-suburbia/

EB: Accomplished Irish poet sharing her time at Stanford and Dublin. Her language and structure in the poem is incredible.

Bruce Andrews... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Andrews

http://www.ubu.com/contemp/andrews/andrews3.html

BA-His poem reminds me of concrete poetry:
http://www.softschools.com/examples/..._examples/400/

Anna Laetitia Barbauld

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

https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/to-a-dog/

https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/pastoral-hymn/

BA: concrete poems/interesting - I wrote a poem using this form, though not readily discernible, some time ago (has it really been almost 4-years since then ?)... http://www.online-literature.com/for...inued-)/page93 .
ALB: An enlightened feminist of modest privilege in a time of social change who outlived and endured a husband who became insane; critiqued by those with lesser sensibilities, sadly Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth among them, resulting in a self-denial of creativity... too sad. Tender poetry.

Barrie Phillip Nichol... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barrie_Phillip_Nichol

https://web.cs.dal.ca/~johnston/poetry/dearcaptain.html

BPN- Interesting poet. I liked his humorous, irreverent poem. Found this, don´t know if it´s good, no earphones at hand: http://citizenfreak.com/titles/26852...hol-motherlove


Ndre_Mjeda
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ndre_Mjeda
https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-old-deer/

BPN... will listen later for the bulk of his sound poetry (buffering problems due to capped bandwidth); "Dada Lama" interesting... appropriate for Mother's Day. NM... Poet, activist, teacher, translator. Interesting nature poem with a powerful ending.

Mei-mei Berssenbrugge... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mei-mei_Berssenbrugge

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poe...s/detail/58186

BPN-Listened to the poems. Very minimalistic, more like sound experiments.

Mei-mei-Interesting multicultural background. Very original poem, delicate images, at times a bit rational


Billy Edd Wheler
http://www.billyeddwheeler.com

http://www.oldielyrics.com/lyrics/bi..._out_back.html

BEW... lol, an ode to an outhouse. Interesting person, I hadn't heard about him before.

Wislawa Szymborska... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wisława_Szymborska

http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_priz...oems-5_en.html

WS-Born four days before my mother. Loved her subtle poem entwining the ironic narrative about the doe with the narrative about the making of the poem. Found another poem by her:
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poe...s/detail/52955



Samuel Johnson
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Johnson

https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/winter-146/

WS... "After every war/ someone has to clean up." Good premise for a poem. SJ: Truly a great literary figure. A passionate little poem.

Jane Wiseman Holt... https://www.librarything.com/author/wisemanjane

https://fromtroublesofthisworld.word...-wiseman-holt/

JWH-Interesting the substantives written with capital letters like in German


Hermann Hesse

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

https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-poet/

I must say I haven't read any of Hesse's works, but plan to rectify that omission. The poet written as ephemeral yet the observer of all.

Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harrie...scott_Spofford

https://college.cengage.com/english/...offord_ha.html

From: https://books.google.com/books?hl=en...0poems&f=false

Quote:

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TWO ANTIQUES

Falling all about her there
And as fire bursts from char
Each eye kindle like a star
When her long lost lamp I bring
There s such magic in the thing
From her ashes scattered far
From her thousand years away
She comes back to me to day
Just a little earthen lamp
Here the oil swam here the wick
Here the flame went flaring back
If the bearer turned her quick
Turned her in the shadowy space
Saw the flash of one swart face
Saw the eager arms and hark
Sprang aside and let the dark
Blow her out and drown the spark

II THE TEAR BOTTLE

HERE a sudden flush of flame
And here a sheet of azure glory
Blood red depth and lucid green
Of seas a stooping storm makes hoary
Such a blaze sheds no sweet queen
Jewel eyed by gems attended
No imperial pearl so fair
No fire opal half so splendid

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How do you play? What are the rules?

Howdy siobankelley !

The rules are on the first posting of this thread here: http://www.online-literature.com/for...sociation-game

The rules haven't always been adhered to (we've gone off on tangents on occasion), but we try. Lately we've been using literary figures and citing references and linking/citing their works.

Example: My last writer's name (Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford) started with the letter of the last name of the previous writer (Hesse) so the next name should start with "S" from Spofford

Join the fun !

HS-Another one that was overlooked. I became interested in her short stories. A pity this thread is not in alphabetical order. Sometimes one wants to get back to one or other of these poets.


Siegfried Sassoon

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

http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets...on/poems/16833

I've been copying and pasting this game in a word processing program since I started playing so I could easily search to make sure I didn't duplicate a name, to the best of my ability, using Control-F (find) and have used it to go back to check notes. It goes back to May last year and, of course, is in linear time, but notes/citations weren't added till later, and then haphazardly so at first. Currently 254 pages using Times New Roman 12pt (current through 5/6/2017) with lots of white space - yet with lots of superfluousness already removed... but more could be done to clean it up... and then alphabetized... hmmm, a possibility. Just experimented with emailing myself the document in gmail which activates the links and it surprisingly survived... a lot faster in formating... food for thought.

SS: Very complex character. A warrior pacifist. Love his use of language in his poem.

Susanna Blamire... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susanna_Blamire

https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/moonlight-81/

Very happy surprise to know that you have made a well cared for copy of the "anthology".You must have worked hard on it. The important thing is that you still will have access to it if something happens to the main one. But I don´t know about alphabetical order. There was a function on the older versions of Word mainly for bibliographical listing. But of late I list them manually, because some times I don´t find it in the new versions. I don´t think it would work with the format of the posts and doing 254 pages! manually would be a very tough job. I intend to copy it too, when the rush of post-doc is over.(July).

SB-Liked her very much. A lonely but powerful Capricorn lady. Her most famous poem:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Olz3ul3Brvw and the
lyrics:https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/and-...n-silk-attire/


Brion Gysin
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brion_Gysin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0F0Tcqn7eE

SB: Beautiful rendition of the poem in song. BG: I hadn't heard of cut-ups as shown in the video before. I've used Dada generators and deconstructed poems and quotes using anagram generators, as well as magnetic poetry and the now lost poetry in motion java application (at least I can't find it), but this method is cleaner, quicker, and less taxing... and no less creative to my mind. I admire his innovative style.

Grace Nichols... https://literature.britishcouncil.or.../grace-nichols

https://www.theguardian.com/books/bo...-grace-nichols

A note on Ekphrasis as mentioned in the above article and poems: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ekphrasis

GN-Very interesting Ekphrasis. The poem confers the painting a life of its own. And the Montage of the parts makes the poem seem complete.In fact the cut-up seems to be a type of Montage. I don´t know these other deconstruction methods you mention.

https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/cat-rap/


Nikola Vaptsarov

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

http://www.revolutionarydemocracy.or.../vaptsarov.htm

lol: Cat Rap. NV: Part time poet, machinist, activist; murdered by the same country that now reveres him; his worker poetry raw and simply written:" ‘History, will you mention us / In your faded scroll?’".

Veronica Forrest-Thomson... https://www.poetryfoundation.org/fea.../detail/142033

http://jacketmagazine.com/20/vft-5p.html

VFT-Very interesting poetry in its language consciousness. I specially enjoyed the essay about Veronica




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

http://www.blackcatpoems.com/f/how_s...he_throne.html

F: "The Lord of the Word". Wrote the Persian epic. Could have possibly been the most rewarded poet of all recorded time... pity. I'm still dissecting the poem to get the full import behind it using colored highlights and shadings, etc. to unentangle my mind.

Felicia Hemans... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felicia_Hemans

https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/invo...o-the-fairies/

F-The poem is very long but he seemed a kind of Persian Homer to me.
FH-I liked her, the way she paints the scenes
https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-adopted-child/

Henry W. Longfellow
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_...rth_Longfellow

https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/by-t...e-the-singers/

HWL: A most venerable American poet. "And he whose ear is tuned aright/Will hear no discord in the three,/But the most perfect harmony.'" very profound.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letitia_Elizabeth_Landon

https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-sea-shore/

LEL-Liked the poem, the several associations with the sea.

Luis de Góngora

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

http://www.poetryintranslation.com/P...r_Toc323380666

http://www.spainthenandnow.com/spani...fault_151.aspx

LdG: "was a Spanish Baroque lyric poet. Góngora and his lifelong rival, Francisco de Quevedo, are widely considered the most prominent Spanish poets of all time. " - wikipedia. Having a rival seems to have spurred his creativity to greater heights. Enjoyed "On the Deceptive Brevity of Life" & "Index of First Lines" which reads as a poem as well. The other link is a fine critique of his poem "Sonnet clxvi: Mientras por competir"

Gaspara Stampa... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaspara_Stampa

https://allpoetry.com/Gaspara-Stampa

LdG-Unfortunately he sounds very different in English at least in the translations I found.

GS-First Italian woman poet I ever heard of. You find them all. :smile5: Also a very early literary salon.

Samuel Daniel

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

https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/love-is-a-sickness-2/ (it must be because he doesn´t write about anything else)

SD: Man of the court c. 1600 and a short time Poet Laureate. Aside from the Why so?s and Heigh ho!s a rather nice poem.

Donald Grady Davidson... https://mypoeticside.com/poets/donald-davidson-poems

https://mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-7281

SD-Lol!Unfortunate choice! There are lots of other sonnets.
DGD- The poem is a piece of history.


Du Fu
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Du_Fu

Quote:

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In Jincheng, music of silk and flutes mixes together all day,
Half goes to the river breeze, half goes to the clouds.
Music such as this should only go to heaven above,
In this human world, how many times can it be heard?
http://www.chinese-poems.com/due.html

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DF: (lol) "I am about to scream madly in the office / Especially when they bring more papers to pile higher on my desk." and this quote was ~758 AD. Lived in a time when China was constantly in turmoil. "According to the Encyclopædia Britannica, Du Fu's writings are considered by many literary critics to be among the greatest of all time,[54] and it states "his dense, compressed language makes use of all the connotative overtones of a phrase and of all the intonational potentials of the individual word, qualities that no translation can ever reveal.""... grand praise indeed.

Quote:

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Overflowing
Du Fu

The moon's reflected on the river a few feet away,
A lantern shines in the night near the third watch.
On the sand, egrets sleep, peacefully curled together,
Behind the boat I hear the splash of jumping fish.

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

Fenggan-A mysterious poet. Most of his poetry seems lost.


Francisco Quevedo

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

Quote:

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To a spring
How happily you greet 1
the sun with your current,
in whose light you bubble to life,
ah, sacred spring,
daughter of the ancient forest!
How you entrust your hidden trove,
your cold waters, to its blond rays!
You blazon forth, sure of summer,
and bluster bravely at hoary winter;
but don’t mistreat him; by that road, 10
for all his fury, he must return,
for see, your new gilded sun
must return the way it came.
Winter and spring pass fl eetingly
through you; so nature decrees;
the vagabond months, marked by
the sky, are merely your guests.
Parched by heat, you love the ice,
prisoner of ice, you love the heat.
Sure, the sun’s brilliance 20
breaks your transparent jail,
made of liquid crystal and seeming silver.
But I fear that, burning,
it comes less to liberate
than to imbibe you,
and that you should decry
what impoverishes your clear current,
more than the pious ice,
which, seeing you weary of ever fl owing,
freezes your motion, 30
so you might rest.
library.globalchalet.net/.../Selected%20Poetry%20of%20Francisc...

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FQ: Góngora's antagonist (mutual). He was an "adherent of the style known as conceptismo": "a brilliant flash of wit expressed in pithy or epigrammatic style." It would appear he was a vulgar man albeit brilliant poet; the poem "To A Spring" delightful and full of passion..

Qiu Jin... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qiu_Jin

http://www.allday.com/this-forgotten...180839166.html

QJ-Loved her.Even in 20C to be a Chinese feminist must have required extra courage. Chinese women were more repressed than the women of several western countries.

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

http://www.poetrycat.com/jonathan-sw...ress-of-poetry

JS: I know him from Gulliver's Travels, but only by the movies I've seen, evidently sanitized. The poem introduced me to
the word Hippocrene.

Suleiman the Magnificent... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suleiman_the_Magnificent

http://www.turkishclass.com/forumTitle_55458

JS-I love Gulliver´s Travels I think the book is a wonderful satire of British Imperialism. "A Modest Proposal" is an obligatory read but it is a very harsh satire, it´s meant to shock, that´s why I didn´t include the link.
This Suleiman may have given his people good laws, but to his sons he was worse than English Richard III


Saadi Shirazi

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

https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/ch-0...ment-story-08/

SS: A common man poet during the Mongol invasions who had an ease with prosaic style.

Quote:

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wikipedia: Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said in Tehran: "[...] At the entrance of the United Nations there is a magnificent carpet – I think the largest carpet the United Nations has – that adorns the wall of the United Nations, a gift from the people of Iran. Alongside it are the wonderful words of that great Persian poet, Sa’adi":

All human beings are members of one frame,
Since all, at first, from the same essence came.
When time afflicts a limb with pain
The other limbs at rest cannot remain.
If thou feel not for other’s misery
A human being is no name for thee.

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Simin Behbahani... http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...060902025.html

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontl...behbahani.html

https://iranian.com/Arts/2002/February/Simin/

SB-Loved her strong personality. Incisive poetry
http://siminbehbahani.com/index.php/en/i-m-so-in-love

Billy Jno Hope
http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/billy_jno_hope (Couldn´t find a better biography)

http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets...pe/poems/21812

SB: Wonderful poem of the regrets of growing old, albeit contrary to my belief to endure to the end. BJH: http://calliopenerve.blogspot.com/20...ies-billy.html . The poem is a bit avant garde: enjoyed L5.

Helene Johnson... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helene_Johnson

https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-sandman-2/