Why disparage or be snarky?
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Liesel
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Why disparage or be snarky?
"I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud... and other poems you half-remember from school"
Perfectly fine book to trigger memories, etc, as the title says, but why the sly comments on the authors, like:
"One can only imagine what the new Mrs. Wordsworth made of this."
Yes, that's mild, and, maybe some newlwed wives would not want their husband's little sister to live with them, as the case of William Wordsworth.
But why even make the comment? They are dead, as of 1850. His poems are his gift.
That's why I love the poem "Romantics Johannes Brahms and Clara Schumann" by Lisel Mueller:
The modern biographers worry
"how far it went," their tender friendship.
They wonder just what it means
when he writes he thinks of her constantly
his guardian angel, beloved friend.
The modern biographers ask
the rude, irrelevant question
of our age, as if the event
of two bodies meshing together
establishes the degree of love,
forgetting how softly Eros walked
in the nineteenth centruy, how a hand
held overlong or a gaze anchored
in someone's eyes could unseat a heart,
and nuances of address not known
in our egalitarian language
could make the redolent air
tremble and shimmer with the heat
of possiblity. Each time I hear
the Intermezzi, sad
and lavish in their tenderness,
I imagine the two of them
sitting in a garden
among late-blooming roses
and dark cascades of leaves,
letting the landscape speak for them,
leaving us nothing to overhear.
Perfectly fine book to trigger memories, etc, as the title says, but why the sly comments on the authors, like:
"One can only imagine what the new Mrs. Wordsworth made of this."
Yes, that's mild, and, maybe some newlwed wives would not want their husband's little sister to live with them, as the case of William Wordsworth.
But why even make the comment? They are dead, as of 1850. His poems are his gift.
That's why I love the poem "Romantics Johannes Brahms and Clara Schumann" by Lisel Mueller:
The modern biographers worry
"how far it went," their tender friendship.
They wonder just what it means
when he writes he thinks of her constantly
his guardian angel, beloved friend.
The modern biographers ask
the rude, irrelevant question
of our age, as if the event
of two bodies meshing together
establishes the degree of love,
forgetting how softly Eros walked
in the nineteenth centruy, how a hand
held overlong or a gaze anchored
in someone's eyes could unseat a heart,
and nuances of address not known
in our egalitarian language
could make the redolent air
tremble and shimmer with the heat
of possiblity. Each time I hear
the Intermezzi, sad
and lavish in their tenderness,
I imagine the two of them
sitting in a garden
among late-blooming roses
and dark cascades of leaves,
letting the landscape speak for them,
leaving us nothing to overhear.
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Maud Fitch
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Snarky comment: Shouldn't this be in the Poetry forum?
"Every story has three sides to it - yours, mine and the facts" Foster Meharny Russell
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Liesel
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Yes, but I couldn't find it.
I will look and change to it.
-- 19 Mar 2012, 07:25 --
And, by the way, that wouldn't be a "snarky" comment if you hadn't written, "snarky comment" in front of it. It would just be an appropriate suggestion. Thanks for letting me know there is such a place for poetry comments.
I will look and change to it.
-- 19 Mar 2012, 07:25 --
And, by the way, that wouldn't be a "snarky" comment if you hadn't written, "snarky comment" in front of it. It would just be an appropriate suggestion. Thanks for letting me know there is such a place for poetry comments.
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dindindin
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Your poem is where it's supposed to be: "En su corazon"(In your heart). Actually, when you consider the author'sLiesel wrote:Yes, but I couldn't find it.
I will look and change to it.
-- 19 Mar 2012, 07:25 --
And, by the way, that wouldn't be a "snarky" comment if you hadn't written, "snarky comment" in front of it. It would just be an appropriate suggestion. Thanks for letting me know there is such a place for poetry comments.
history, her insistence on modifying the word "comment" with "snarky" is redundant. And like the comment itself,
unnecessary. I like your poem. Welcome to the OBC.
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Liesel
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Thank you for the warm welcome -- I look forward to more posts with you and everyone.
Your insight and pithy expression seemed to open a door to my ability to begin posting -- that poem is in my heart.
Your insight and pithy expression seemed to open a door to my ability to begin posting -- that poem is in my heart.
