name association game

Moero- Another interesting find! From what survived of Greek poetry one gets a small idea of what got lost.


Matthew Arnold
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poe...matthew-arnold

https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/growing-old/

MA: "the most modern of the Victorians." Poet & critic, steeped in philosophy: "there are two offices of Poetry--one to add to one's store of thoughts and feelings--another to compose and elevate the mind by a sustained tone, numerous allusions, and a grand style." Growing Old: "Ah, 'tis not what in youth we dreamed 'twould be!".

Anna Seward

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

https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/december-morning/

AS-"Though Canon Seward's (but not his wife's) attitudes towards the education of girls was progressive relative to the times, they were not excessively liberal. Amongst the subjects he taught them was theology and numeracy, and how to read and appreciate poetry, and also how to write and recite poetry. Although this deviated from what were considered ' conventional drawing room accomplishments', the omissions were also notable, including languages and science, although they were left free to pursue their own inclinations".
Delicate poem.

Sam Hunt
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Hunt_(poet)

http://tuesdaypoem.blogspot.com.br/2...-sam-hunt.html

SH: "... New Zealand's best-known poet" whose poetry contains "unabashed romanticism" and is "one of New Zealand's most recognisable (sic) figures." SH's poetry from you selection: Simple language - wonderful imagery.

H.D.

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poe...ets/detail/h-d

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poe...s/detail/48189

H D-Search for identity, Ezra Pound, complicated love life.Sheltered Garden: Original images (association with the Garden of Eden not mere coincidence). Despair.Sheltered life X The right to transgress.

Douglas Dunn
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poe...l/douglas-dunn

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

DD: Draft Dodger ? 10+ books of poetry; knew Philip Larkin from working with him in a library. Larksong... L5 and L6 would have been better served without the trappings of technology matching the tone of the rest of the poem IMHO.

Dante Alighieri

https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literatu...ieri-biography

https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/ther...entle-thought/

DD-Draft Dodger?
DA-Sweet poem. Love his Divine Comedy. Had some sense of humour. All his political enemies where put into the hell part of the poem.


Antonio Machado
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonio_Machado

https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/to-j...lacio/#content

DA: Haven't read The Divine Comedy yet... I slogged through The Inferno about 10-years ago. AM: Spanish poet. Tragic the loss of his young wife. A natural poet of place as he dedicates the poem to his friend.

Marjorie Fleming

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

http://www.poetryexplorer.net/poem.php?id=10060091

DA- I think that The Inferno is the most interesting part of the Divine Comedy.
MF- Absolutely amazing. A child poet that reads adult poetry and has a very own sense of humour:'EPHIBOL ON MY DEAR LOVE ISABELLA "She and I in bed lie nice./And undisturbed by rats and mice;" A great pity she died so young.

François Villon
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poe...rancois-villon

https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/ball...adies-of-yore/

FV: "perhaps the best-known French poet of the Middle Ages"... Perhaps a rogue, and companion of rogues, as well. I looked up his refrain in the poem you cited... "Where are the snows of yesteryear?" or: Why does life fade so quickly ?

Vittoria Colonna

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

The following is a bit convoluted (in need of editing) and needs to be magnified (Ctrl +) but adds much information on her life, times, and poetry:

https://archive.org/stream/vittoriac...crich_djvu.txt

and a poem:

http://www.jimandellen.org/vcsonnets/vcsonnet85.html

... the preceding from Ellen Moody's marvelous pages: http://www.jimandellen.org/vcpoetry/vctitle.htm

... from the greater http://www.jimandellen.org/ellen/emhome.htm created by her husband Jim

Just took a quick break on LitNet. Have to buy black ink for my printer. Reading about Victoria when I am back

There's a lot there... if rushed for time just read links 1 and 3... I was amazed at the work others had done.

VC-Interesting historical figure, of political and religious influence, Friendship with Michelangelo. Beautiful pages! Read the poem but am going to come back to browse in the Archiv.

Charlotte Brontë
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poe...e-bronte#about

https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/pleasure-2/

CB: Watched most of a movie the other day about the Brontë sisters that was interesting, albeit melodramatic. Only 38 or 39 years old when she passed on. I wasn't aware of her poetry at all. Her poem in an abab form using sight rhyme as well as perfect rhyme (a typo with yound instead of young) is very nice.

Bobby Long

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Long_(musician)

http://nodepression.com/article/bobb...s-his-humanity

BL-Noticed just now, that we were born on the same day (a difference of 32 years). Musician, likes poetry written in Spanish.

Quote:

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"I still come back here to remind myself,
that upon this ridge where the moss grows,
the moss is still growing."

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Laxmi Prasad Devkota

http://xnepali.net/laxmi-prasad-devk...pali-mahakabi/

http://www.authorsden.com/visit/viewPoetry.asp?id=76848

LPD: The greatest poet of Nepal: "Nepali poetry soared to new heights with Devkota’s groundbreaking and innovative use of the language." Poetically adroit. Wonderful ethos. Enjoyed these lines from Muna Madan :

Quote:

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She lives across the river.
On the other side.
But she laughs with the flowers,
dances with water,
blinks with the stars,
speaks with the blackbird,
and her eyes, they shine.
She weeps with the dew
and when she is sad,
you will see the mist sinking.

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Denise Duhamel

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

http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets...el/poems/14860

DD-Very irreverent. Liked her description of the poet "Ai", who is already listed in the thread. In Portuguese there is a different association to "Ai":
It´s an exclamation of pain. Found another poem by her:
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poe...s/detail/54110



Derek Walcott
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poe.../derek-walcott


http://www.poetrycat.com/derek-walcott/after-the-storm

Ai: Same here; also an exclamation often coined Ai Ai Ai ! or Ai yi yi (or Aya Yi Yi)... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtUpq84olaw DD: Enjoyed Ego. DW: Caribbean poet and playwright. After The Storm dovetails nicely with Denise Duhamel's Ego. He's since passed on (17 March 2017) since we last visited him (typo on his name first time around this past January: corrected). "In 1992, Walcott won the Nobel Prize in Literature. The Nobel committee described his work as “a poetic oeuvre of great luminosity, sustained by a historical vision, the outcome of a multicultural commitment.”"

Wallada bint al-Mustakfi

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wallada_bint_al-Mustakfi

http://www.online-literature.com/for...ic-to-English)

Wallada bint al-Mustakfi-From Andalusia when it still was dominated by the Arab nobility.
Interesting how she found her place as a woman and a poet among all those male sucessors. I remember Amylian´s translations of her verses.

Marvin Bell
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poe...il/marvin-bell

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poe...ontentId=30898

https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/i-or-someone-like-me/

MB: "American poet and critic Marvin Bell "is a poet of the family." Quite astute about the secrets to writing poetry. AN AFTERWORD TO MY FATHER (his emphasis not mine): a poem about family and family history which is dear to me. I also like the sensibility that shines with Or Someone Like Me.

Barbara Goldberg

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poe...rbara-goldberg

http://barbaragoldberg.net/html/poems.html

BG-Quite ironic. Unexpected themes like this one:https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poe...ontentId=35476

Georg Trakl

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poe...il/georg-trakl

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poe...ontentId=28696

BG: Teeth... Too close to the mark. GT: WWI vet. Compared with Arthur Rimbaud; high praise.

Quote:

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Herbert Lindenberger wrote in Georg Trakl, “The lofty stance, the cosmic range, and the haunting music of Trakl’s poetry now mark him, with Rilke, as perhaps the last great representative of what could be called the sublime tradition in German.”

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Sebastian im Traum: a surreal feast.

Tess Gallagher

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poe...tess-gallagher

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poe...s/detail/54051

TG-Simple natural style, seems to be talking to you. Didn´t feel very confortable about the jains on account of the swastica, but Hitler possibly perverted the symbol
Enjoyed this poem: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/48950/choices



Guy Wetmore Carryl
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy_Wetmore_Carryl

http://www.poetrycat.com/guy-wetmore...oet-was-booted

TG: Delightful poem; dedicated to the poet Drago Štambuk... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drago_Štambuk . GWC: "American humorist and poet"; some of his poems humorous parodies of Aesop's tales and others. Sadly died at 31.How A Cat Was Annoyed And A Poet Was Booted: Cute.

Caroline Clive

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

https://www.poetrynook.com/poem/age-11

CC-Very Victorian, reminds me a bit of Anne Brontë.



Constantine Cavafy

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constantine_P._Cavafy

http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets...afy/poems/6530

http://www.cavafy.com/poems/list.asp?cat=1

CC: A perectionist. "His poems are, typically, concise but intimate evocations of real or literary figures and milieux that have played roles in Greek culture." Candles: an interesting take on mortality.

Quote:

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Voices

Voices, loved and idealized,
of those who have died, or of those
lost for us like the dead.

Sometimes they speak to us in dreams;
sometimes deep in thought the mind hears them.

And with their sound for a moment return
sounds from our life’s first poetry—
like music at night, distant, fading away.

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Carolyn Kizer

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

https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/a-poet-s-household/

CK- More or less normal life it seems but died of dementia. Enjoyed the poem!



Konstantin Balmont

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

https://www.poetryloverspage.com/yev...mont/deer.html

KB: Russian poet, translator, and activist. Passionate in life and politics: Prone to jumping through windows. Some of his poems have been set to music by Russia's best composers. The Deer, as translated is a sonnet, albeit imperfect, with sight and near rhymes and a form break: ABBA ABBA CDE CDC - wherein lies its charm.

Blanaid Salkeld

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

https://ellipticalmovements.wordpres...sh-woman-poet/

BS- Multicultural background:India/Ireland. Reviewer of contemporary poetry.Herself reviewed by Becket. Enjoyed the rythm of her poem

Sharon Olds
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/sharon-olds

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poe...907/the-flurry

.....

SO: "... the poet Billy Collins has called her “a poet of sex and the psyche,” adding that “Sharon Olds is infamous for her subject matter alone…but her closer readers know her as a poet of constant linguistic surprise.”" The Flurry: a visual feast. I also liked this poem: Take the I Out https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/take-the-i-out/

Orhan Veli Kanik

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

http://www.beyond-the-pale.uk/kanik.htm

OVK-Inovative poetry. Loved the page, the sensibility and the humour (Poem with a tail) in his poems.

Kenneth Patchen

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


https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/orange-bears

KP: Though influential to the beat poet scene he eschewed their excesses. Writer of Jazz poetry https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jazz_poetry and childlike "painted poems". Friend of E.E. Cummings. Youtube selections I hope you can access: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9JMb0C0uLo (includes Orange Bears in his voice) and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9W3QN5W8fA

Petra Müller

http://www.poetryinternationalweb.ne...0/Petra-Muller

http://www.poetryinternationalweb.ne...TER-THE-SERMON

KP-Interesting links. Enjoyed specially the second spoken poem. Still don´t know who the orange bears stand for.
PM- South Africa. Adult and Children poetry. Very spontaneous verse. "Everything turns to flame so suddenly "- A good definition the paintings of Gauguin.


Max Jacob
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/max-jacob

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poe...ontentId=25472

KP: The consensus online seems to be that the Orange Bears are the industrial workers, including his father, whose health is sacrificed (soot and slag, etc.) for corporate profit; in parallel the flowers are covered in soot on the sill. MJ: French poet experimenting in cubism/surrealism/symbolism. Interesting collection of poems; I liked BANKS, translated by Elizabeth Bishop, very much.

Janine Pommy Vega

https://alchetron.com/Janine-Pommy-Vega-1020576-W

http://www.poemsbypost.com/?p=769

KP-Thanks for looking it up, Tailor. Orange has so many meanings today.
JV-Beat generation, cosmopolitan biography. Poem has probably the form of a song.

Vicente Huidobro

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

https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/ars-poetica-15/

Quote:

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"I was born at the age of 33 on the day Christ died; I was born at the
Equinox, under the hydrangeas and the aeroplanes in the heat.
I had the soulful gaze of a pigeon, a tunnel, a sentimental motorcar. I
heaved sighs like an acrobat.
My father was blind and his hands were more wonderful than the night.
I love the night, the hat of every day.
The night, the night of day, from one day to the next.
My mother spoke like the dawn, like blimps about to fall. Her hair was
the color of a flag and her eyes were full of far-off ships.
One day, I gathered up my parachute and said: “Between two swallows
and a star.” Here death is coming closer like the earth to a falling balloon.
My mother embroidered abandoned tears on the first rainbows.
And now my parachute drops from dream to dream through the spaces
of death."
http://www.pequeñodios.cl/wp.../06/A...LINGUE-web.pdf

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VH: "Chilean poet... known for promoting the Avant-garde literary movement in Chile, and the creator and greatest exponent of the literary movement called Creacionismo ("Creationism") https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creacionismo ." Ars Poetica a poem with poetic advice "Let poetry be like a key / Opening a thousand doors..." The other poem has some nice imagery in it, however the link to the .pdf file gave me a 404 error for some reason and I could not access.

Hilda Conkling

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

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poe...ontentId=15672

VH- His (short) Artic Poems:
http://www.saltana.org/1/inv/arctic_poems.pdf
Altazor (link corrected):
http://www.pequeñodios.cl/wp-content...LINGUE-web.pdf

HC-Another child poet. Beautiful poems. Pity she stopped when she grew up. Some mystery there.

Charles Causley

https://www.theguardian.com/books/20...uardianreview7

http://www.poetryarchive.org/poem/br...emetery-bayeux

VH: Nice websites /.pdfs... will have to revisit to soak it all in << This is the way I envision poetry to be accessible. CC: A humble poet from Cornwall (I had to look up where Cornwall was... it's the Westiest from my English roots, Southiest from my Scottish roots, and South/East from my Irish roots... it looks like a toe testing the waters of the Atlantic.). His poem "At the British War Cemetery, Bayeux" a fine tribute to the fallen, especially"... Take, they replied, the oak and laurel. / Take our fortune of tears and live / Like a spendthrift lover. All we ask / Is the one gift you cannot give."

Candice James

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

http://www.mywordwizard.com/surrealist-poems.html

Candice James:

Quote:

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In the eye of the hurricane
Wandering through the chaos
Those with closed eyes.
Those with scarred souls
Eddying,
In the core of the whirlpool

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Nothing more needs to be said.

Joseph Von Eichendorf
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph...on_Eichendorff


https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/night-of-the-moon/
Note: Moon night in German