Poetry Forum

Traveler I want to tell you where we live,..................why? but we’re not there, we’re on the move. The journey is rebarbative :....nicely weighted perhaps a pillow could improve... :D your ride a little? It is far, from there to here , home to away.....just a thought We’re hitched now to a wa...

ton321 wrote: ↑

Sat Mar 30, 2024 4:04 am

Take a walk on the outer walls
of that old city.
It’s Winter, getting dark,and the faces
of gargoyles are harried;

the ache of the day is still in them,
and they are still missing their pills.

I wondered if you could suggest more about the inner state by tinkering with the perception?

Congratulations John. the ideal penetrates the real! Fab sculpture.

Sorry to hear that Caleb.

Not surprisingly, his academic background was philosophy. I agree with you on the tangent. I didn't know about the 'Blue Shirts'. The context of 1930's saw Auden lean left. Of course, older poets often lean to the right. Perhaps Shelley would have become like Wordsworth. Nah :D He would have worn pa...

I checked a couple for scrabble

I admit Eliot's anti-Semitism is a disturbing prejudice.

An article on Yeats' elitism:

https://jacobin.com/2023/11/w-b-yeats-p ... sm-fascism

jisbell00 wrote: ↑

Thu Mar 28, 2024 9:27 pm

Facetiously is one of just two words in English to contain every vowel in correct order.

Cheers,
John

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Category ... ical_order

certainly not John.

Yes, you make a valid point about biography.

I'm not that much engaged by Yeats, his politics and beliefs, I find Eliot a more engaging read. However, sifting his poems, reading the notes on them in my book, and watching lectures on YouTube, has helped me to appreciate him more.

For those interested in alliteration:

https://alliteration.net/call-for-submissions/

Early or later Yeats John?

The philosophical side of your poetry John prompted me to think of Four Quartets.

Some Eliot quotes...

https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/2 ... r-quartets