Poetry not (quite) dead.

Post #218,350 by Meerkat 8/9/05 9:42:31 AM Reply	Poetry not (quite) dead. I still remember fondly from school when we were going through a 'metaphysical poets' stage.. John Donne's 'the Flea' I shall never forget. It's concise, beautiful, and somewhat naughty. (probably much moreso in this dy and age). My English teachers work was not in vain, but my Maths teachers, well... what is a quadratic equation, anyway? Two out of three people wonder where the other one is.
Post #218,413 by imqwerky 8/9/05 4:25:48 PM Reply	My all-time fave poem is "My Last Duchess" by Robert Browning: the most concise murder mystery ever written. I've often dreamed of writing a screen play, but then consider that it would never hold a candle to the original. [link\|http://mason.gmu.edu/~lsmithg/275duchess.htm\|http://mason.gmu.edu...hg/275duchess.htm] My Fantasy Cast: The Duke: Alan Rickman The Duchess: Kate Winslet Fra Pandolf: Johnny Depp The Count: Hector Elizondo The Count's Daughter: Salma Hayek The Count's Aide (to whom the Duke is speaking): Alfred Molina Peace, Amy Illegitimi non corborundum.
Post #218,622 by Ashton 8/10/05 1:18:31 PM Reply	You're right.. actually it's Everywhere (in small snippets) We only live two moments let one of them be for wisdom. --Voltaire All theory, dear friend, is grey, but the golden tree of actual life springs ever green. --Goethe Not every truth is the better for showing its face undistinguished; and often silence is the wisest course for a man to pursue. --Pindar (people used to remember such material, before meeja filled all the time)
Post #218,637 by imqwerky 8/10/05 2:08:51 PM Reply	I can still recite "Abou Ben Adhem","The World Is Too Much With Us (still a relevant poem), and "No Man Is An Island", just to name a few. We are letting our kids down by not having them memorize poetry or passages of well-written prose (i.e., The Gettysburg Address, Shakespeare, speeches from that long lost species: the statesman/orator). Nope, Bush thinks it's more impotent that they study ID. tsk, tsk. Peace, Amy Illegitimi non corborundum.
Post #218,643 by Ashton 8/10/05 2:59:01 PM Reply	I kinda like Sonnet CXVI of the Bard Let me not to the marriage of true minds \tAdmit impediments. Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, \tOr bends with the remover to remove: O no! it is an ever-fixed mark \tThat looks on tempests and is never shaken; . . . It's an entire philosophy course (and religio reappraisal) in One - One - One! Package. But we'll always have Paris.
Post #218,648 by imqwerky 8/10/05 3:12:03 PM Reply	Will has a permanent place in my heart. My! But it is wonderful to exercise that area of the grey matter again. Mental aerobics is so good for the body. Much better than that sick-o asphyxiation-speak going on in the other forum. This is an infinitely better high. No shoes, shirt, batteries, or membership fees required. Just, perhaps, a current library card. ;) Peace, Amy Illegitimi non corborundum.
Post #218,650 by ben_tilly 8/10/05 3:13:27 PM Reply	:-) Bush thinks it's more impotent* that they study ID.* I like that word choice. Particularly considering that he wants them to study abstainance as well. :-) Cheers, Ben I have come to believe that idealism without discipline is a quick road to disaster, while discipline without idealism is pointless. -- Aaron Ward (my brother)

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