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| 27 OCT 2002 at 1:50am |
MichalNGrand Inquisitor
Posts : 7058
Joined: 14 SEP 2003
Status : Online | I don't read poetry. If someone can't express themselves in plain English sentences, I don't want to hear about it But I secretly admire people for whom poetry works.
I forgot my sig.
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| 27 OCT 2002 at 9:49am |
JonasKyratzesSorcerer Apprentice
Posts : 280
Joined: 10 OCT 2002
Status : Online | Oh, you should read Blake. He's a genius. Really, really deep and complicated stuff, sometimes very dark. None of that 'oh what a pretty flower' crap. At least, not too much.
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| 27 OCT 2002 at 12:16pm |
RavensbreedSpace Cadet
Posts : 156
Joined: 10 OCT 2002
Status : Online | Don't really go for much poetry, but I do like Blake. Did a university course on writers of the 18th century and we did his Songs of Innocence and Experience and I must admit that the poems touch a cord somewhere. A deep thinker, a strange visionary. Did you know that Blake intended Tiger, Tiger should be sung like the song "Twinkle, Twinkle, little star"?
"Tiger, Tiger, burning bright
In the forest of the night"
I also have a soft spot for Shakespeare, his epic poem Venus and Adonis is quite funny, if you look at it from an Elizabethan point of view.
Some people are like a slinky. They might not be good for anything, but its fun to watch them tumble down stairs. &&
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| 29 OCT 2002 at 12:13am |
NellieSorcerer Apprentice
Posts : 359
Joined: 12 OCT 2002
Status : Online | Jonas, you should post one of your favourite Blake poems here, so we can all see what you like.
I've got 'Songs...' on my hard drive from Project Gutenberg, but... er... I haven't read it yet.
/me goes off and roots for .txt files on his hard drive.
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| 29 OCT 2002 at 2:33pm |
JonasKyratzesSorcerer Apprentice
Posts : 280
Joined: 10 OCT 2002
Status : Online | The Auguries of Innocence and The Human Abstract are some of my favorites. I might post them later, when I have some time.
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