god you guys are missing out
― max, Wednesday, 2 June 2010 01:23 (thirteen years ago) link
i dont know if youd like dickinson tho louis? dont you like big epic type bros? maybe whitman would be more your style?
― max, Wednesday, 2 June 2010 01:24 (thirteen years ago) link
Um...more or less my favourite poetry (that 1930's modernist biz) is decidedly UN-epic! Or at least, doesn't really go on for more than 20 pages at a pop, and usually keeps to one or two pages. The epic form is delightful when done well, however, so I'm open-minded about who I read.
great modern female poets: Susan Howe anyone? Elizabeth Bishop did that poem about a fish didn't she - the one that got polled up against some other poems - it's GREAT and I voted for it
― some men enjoy the feeling of being owned (acoleuthic), Wednesday, 2 June 2010 01:28 (thirteen years ago) link
*WHOM if we're being PERNICKETY
actually GMH is pretty much my favourite poetry fuck tha h8rs
― some men enjoy the feeling of being owned (acoleuthic), Wednesday, 2 June 2010 01:29 (thirteen years ago) link
I want to love Hopkins, but the rhymes and rhythms jangle in an awkward way. Behind the rhetorical legerdemain is content that Donne and Herbert have approached more...delicately, let's say.
― Filmmaker, Author, Radio Host Stephen Baldwin (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 2 June 2010 01:40 (thirteen years ago) link
maybe GMH is a unique synthesis of anguished melodrama and infernal systemic-scattergun complexity, two things which have always defined my youthful thoughts
or he's just got an ear for cadence that I haven't heard the like of, ever else
it only deepens my affection, that he makes up compound-adjectives and expressions like 'inscape' and 'instress' to suit his wild purposes - he seems genuinely to be inventing and discovering a new poetic, one that in this pure moment of creation only he can compose - and this new poetic enables him to look within mystical processes in a manner that reveals the very structure of his sensual imagination - his entire comprehension of life is splattered manically onto the page as if attempting to chronicle the totality of God - observe how elongated I have become in response - it is silly but no poet has evinced such throes - such exquisite tortures
― some men enjoy the feeling of being owned (acoleuthic), Wednesday, 2 June 2010 01:51 (thirteen years ago) link
'rollrock highroad roaring down' are seven of my favorite syllables of all time. the rest is hit or miss.
― max, Wednesday, 2 June 2010 01:54 (thirteen years ago) link
LJ OTM imo -- good post
― ksh, Wednesday, 2 June 2010 01:58 (thirteen years ago) link
'Spelt From Sibyl's Leaves' is the most perfect document of English language, IMO, but enough of this - I need sleep
― some men enjoy the feeling of being owned (acoleuthic), Wednesday, 2 June 2010 01:59 (thirteen years ago) link
xpost
although, tbh, the only GMH i've encountered was a little bit here and there in college -- all scattershot
― ksh, Wednesday, 2 June 2010 01:59 (thirteen years ago) link
go on then, I've posted this to ILX like 3 times before but why not again
accents are for stress
Spelt From Sibyl's Leaves
EARNEST, earthless, equal, attuneable, ' vaulty, voluminous, … stupendousEvening strains to be tíme’s vást, ' womb-of-all, home-of-all, hearse-of-all night.Her fond yellow hornlight wound to the west, ' her wild hollow hoarlight hung to the heightWaste; her earliest stars, earl-stars, ' stárs principal, overbend us,Fíre-féaturing heaven. For earth ' her being has unbound, her dapple is at an end, as-tray or aswarm, all throughther, in throngs; ' self ín self steedèd and páshed — qúiteDisremembering, dísmémbering ' áll now. Heart, you round me rightWith: Óur évening is over us; óur night ' whélms, whélms, ánd will end us.Only the beak-leaved boughs dragonish ' damask the tool-smooth bleak light; black,Ever so black on it. Óur tale, O óur oracle! ' Lét life, wáned, ah lét life windOff hér once skéined stained véined variety ' upon, áll on twó spools; párt, pen, páckNow her áll in twó flocks, twó folds — black, white; ' right, wrong; reckon but, reck but, mindBut thése two; wáre of a wórld where bút these ' twó tell, each off the óther; of a rackWhere, selfwrung, selfstrung, sheathe- and shelterless, ' thóughts agaínst thoughts ín groans grínd.
― some men enjoy the feeling of being owned (acoleuthic), Wednesday, 2 June 2010 02:02 (thirteen years ago) link
i don't know who did the seeding but there's just no way Yeats runs into the Shakespeare buzzsaw in round one. Shoulda tossed him a sacrificial Romantic or something.
― all yoga attacks are fire based (rogermexico.), Saturday, 19 June 2010 23:47 (thirteen years ago) link
aw i missed this! i had such an embarrassing yeats obsession as a teenager that i couldn't read him for a while after that. also think he suffers because i know more about him as a dude than shakespeare and yeats was kind of silly.
i mean, shakespeare is the "i want you back" by the jackson 5 of polls, so i would have voted for him, but <3 yeats so ponderous.
― horseshoe, Sunday, 20 June 2010 02:08 (thirteen years ago) link
For me there is something about Shakespeare, Keats, and Yeats that places them above everyone else in the English language. Don't know if I'll feel this way in five years or not...
― jeevves, Monday, 22 November 2010 09:27 (thirteen years ago) link
i like your picks. shelley maybe squeezes in there too imo, but that's based on nothing more than ozymandias really.
― Goths in Home & Away in my lifetime (darraghmac), Monday, 22 November 2010 22:01 (thirteen years ago) link
Yep, love Shelley.
― jeevves, Monday, 22 November 2010 22:39 (thirteen years ago) link
HAD I the heavens’ embroidered cloths,Enwrought with golden and silver light,The blue and the dim and the dark clothsOf night and light and the half light,I would spread the cloths under your feet:But I, being poor, have only my dreams;I have spread my dreams under your feet;Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
i've been drunkenly reading this several times per day for the last week. fuck
― tebow gotti (k3vin k.), Friday, 20 January 2012 07:31 (twelve years ago) link
The last two stanzas of "Adam's Curse"!
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 20 January 2012 12:12 (twelve years ago) link
aww K3v hope you are ok. those lines make me sob even when everything is right in my life, they are the most perfect thing
― unlistenable in philly (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Friday, 20 January 2012 13:50 (twelve years ago) link
Nor rain, wind, thunder, fire, are my daughters: I tax not you, you elements, with unkindness; I never gave you kingdom, call’d you children, You owe me no subscription: then, let fall Your horrible pleasure; here I stand, your slave, A poor, infirm, weak, and despis’d old man.
^^^ I think the pyrotechnics of the earlier parts of the soliloquy get all the attention but this right here is the business
― unlistenable in philly (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Friday, 20 January 2012 14:01 (twelve years ago) link
collapses on itself v nicely
― Aimless, Friday, 20 January 2012 19:50 (twelve years ago) link
thanks to alfred for posting frost's 'desert places.' never read that before; utterly gorgeous.
is there a consensus on the best frost collection to own?
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Friday, 20 January 2012 21:00 (twelve years ago) link
The collected Frost is really one of the rare COMPLETE collections you need own. He only wrote two volumes of fluff (his last two).
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 20 January 2012 21:25 (twelve years ago) link
we should do more of these
― junior dada (thomp), Friday, 20 January 2012 22:40 (twelve years ago) link
my sophomore HS english teacher had to drive frost to and from the airport when he was in college. he described him as 'the crabbiest old bastard i've ever met.'
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Friday, 20 January 2012 23:13 (twelve years ago) link
SEPTEMBER 1913by William Butler YeatsWhat need you, being come to sense,But fumble in a greasy tillAnd add the ha’pence to the penceAnd prayer to shivering prayer, untilYou have dried the marrow from the bone;For men were born to pray and save?,Romantic Ireland’s dead and gone,It’s with O’Leary in the grave.Yet they were of a different kind,The names that stilled your childish play,They have gone about the world like wind,But little time had they to prayFor whom the hangman’s rope was spun,And what, God help us, could they save?Romantic Ireland’s dead and gone,It’s with O’Leary in the grave.Was it for this the wild geese spreadThe grey wing upon every tide;For this that all that blood was shed,For this Edward Fitzgerald died,And Robert Emmet and Wolfe Tone,All that delirium of the brave?Romantic Ireland’s dead and gone,It’s with O’Leary in the grave. Yet could we turn the years again,And call those exiles as they wereIn all their loneliness and pain,You’d cry ‘Some woman’s yellow hairHas maddened every mother’s son’:They weighed so lightly what they gave.But let them be, they’re dead and gone,They’re with O’Leary in the grave.
100th anniversary of publication, and all is changed, changed utterly (not likely)
― his LIPS !!! (darraghmac), Saturday, 7 September 2013 16:16 (ten years ago) link
in the pub, with a friend, he's just gone to drain the weasel, read that while he was away. and well, it moved the hell out of me. time to get a pint.
― Fizzles, Saturday, 7 September 2013 16:30 (ten years ago) link
this is the best thread on ilx
― k3vin k., Friday, 24 January 2014 18:08 (ten years ago) link
Old ILE's dead and goneIt's with Passantino in the UK
― Bryan Fairy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 24 January 2014 18:08 (ten years ago) link
just sent the second coming to a client wanting to know why things don't work as well as they used to. v much looking fwd to response.
― the only thing worse than being tweeted about (darraghmac), Friday, 23 May 2014 11:42 (nine years ago) link
should've sent him Lear's last monologue
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 23 May 2014 12:06 (nine years ago) link
some guy studying political science barf was introduced to me at a party the other night and the person introducing us said of him "he's very passionate" and i said "but about what" and he said "taking over the world" barf and i said "see, the best lack all conviction and the worst are full of passionate intensity" and he looked perplexed
― difficult listening hour, Friday, 23 May 2014 12:23 (nine years ago) link
no response :(
― the only thing worse than being tweeted about (darraghmac), Sunday, 25 May 2014 21:43 (nine years ago) link
tbh its maybe a tack worth taking more often
I would like us to do this all over again, picking different lines and verses and offerings, I wouldn't even pick on frost this time. we should do it every year, without repeats.
― cpt navajo (darraghmac), Friday, 11 July 2014 22:38 (nine years ago) link
ts big dogs 2014 edition #1: dostoyevsky vs austen
― ♛ LIL UNIT ♛ (thomp), Friday, 11 July 2014 22:45 (nine years ago) link
oh yeah def but i meant like for these two itt
― cpt navajo (darraghmac), Friday, 11 July 2014 22:54 (nine years ago) link
today, a catTHE CAT AND THE MOON
by: W. B. Yeats (1865-1939)
HE cat went here and thereAnd the moon spun round like a top,And the nearest kin of the moon,The creeping cat, looked up.Black Minnaloushe stared at the moon,For, wander and wail as he would,The pure cold light in the skyTroubled his animal blood.Minnaloushe runs in the grassLifting his delicate feet.Do you dance, Minnaloushe, do you dance?When two close kindred meet,What better than call a dance?Maybe the moon may learn,Tired of that courtly fashion,A new dance turn.Minnaloushe creeps through the grassFrom moonlit place to place,The sacred moon overheadHas taken a new phase.Does Minnaloushe know that his pupilsWill pass from change to change,And that from round to crescent,From crescent to round they range?Minnaloushe creeps through the grassAlone, important and wise,And lifts to the changing moonHis changing eyes.
― your favourite misread ILX threads (darraghmac), Friday, 25 July 2014 10:56 (nine years ago) link
imagine being so good you can write that for a bloody cat tho
― your favourite misread ILX threads (darraghmac), Friday, 25 July 2014 10:58 (nine years ago) link
I remember at school, and English was my subject, mind, that sailing to Byzantium was only nonsense, whispers caught in the wind and the odd image of echoing history, a scatty lament, nothing more. read it again tonight and welp
THAT is no country for old men. The youngIn one another's arms, birds in the trees- Those dying generations - at their song,The salmon-falls, the mackerel-crowded seas,Fish, flesh, or fowl, commend all summer longWhatever is begotten, born, and dies.Caught in that sensual music all neglectMonuments of unageing intellect.
An aged man is but a paltry thing,A tattered coat upon a stick, unlessSoul clap its hands and sing, and louder singFor every tatter in its mortal dress,Nor is there singing school but studyingMonuments of its own magnificence;And therefore I have sailed the seas and comeTo the holy city of Byzantium.
O sages standing in God's holy fireAs in the gold mosaic of a wall,Come from the holy fire, perne in a gyre,And be the singing-masters of my soul.Consume my heart away; sick with desireAnd fastened to a dying animalIt knows not what it is; and gather meInto the artifice of eternity.
Once out of nature I shall never takeMy bodily form from any natural thing,But such a form as Grecian goldsmiths makeOf hammered gold and gold enamellingTo keep a drowsy Emperor awake;Or set upon a golden bough to singTo lords and ladies of ByzantiumOf what is past, or passing, or to come
― nakh is the wintour of our diss content (darraghmac), Monday, 25 August 2014 22:45 (nine years ago) link
maybe its been mentioned earlier but reading yeats in school i found his delusional sad-sack obsession with maud gonne pitiful and led to some gratuitous bitterness in his poems.
― everyday sheeple (Michael B), Monday, 25 August 2014 23:51 (nine years ago) link
true, yet even unworthy sentiments weren't wasted on him, looking at the outputs he generated from them. even if twere relevant tbh
― nakh is the wintour of our diss content (darraghmac), Monday, 25 August 2014 23:54 (nine years ago) link
whenever he writes an empty booming phrase like "the artifice of eternity" he belts me with "Of hammered gold and gold enamelling/To keep a drowsy Emperor awake."
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 25 August 2014 23:57 (nine years ago) link
a belt of hammered gold would be alright imo
― nakh is the wintour of our diss content (darraghmac), Tuesday, 26 August 2014 00:04 (nine years ago) link
otm
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 26 August 2014 00:15 (nine years ago) link
Yeats really really getting to me lately, like I open and read and am completely drowning within a few lines
― Now I Am Become Dracula (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Monday, 1 September 2014 15:02 (nine years ago) link
this is no country... for yeats!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
― max, Monday, May 31, 2010 7:04 PM (4 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
lol
― horseshoe, Monday, 1 September 2014 15:15 (nine years ago) link
thread making me think i should give frost another chance
i don't know why i posted upthread about being embarrassed by yeats because i had been obsessed with him as a teenager. teenagers otm.
― horseshoe, Monday, 1 September 2014 15:16 (nine years ago) link
i would have voted shakespeare but this is really hard.
― horseshoe, Monday, 1 September 2014 15:17 (nine years ago) link