Members kburkhal66 Posted September 12, 2009 Members Report Share Posted September 12, 2009 Not a sexy story but it speaks of passion, desire, desparation, pursuit, The Dalliance of the EaglesSkirting the river road, (my forenoon walk, my rest,)Skyward in air a sudden muffled sound, the dalliance of the eagles,The rushing amorous contact high in space together,The clinching interlocking claws, a living, fierce, gyrating wheel,Four beating wings, two beaks, a swirling mass tight grappling,In tumbling turning clustering loops, straight downward falling.Till o'er the river pois'd, the twain yet one, a moment's lull,A motionless still balance in the air, then parting, talons loosing,Upward again on slow-firm pinions slanting, their separate diverse flight,She hers, he his, pursuing. Walt Whitman Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Members Mikayla1 Posted September 12, 2009 Members Report Share Posted September 12, 2009 I LOVE that poem! I have read it many times in my educational career (even thought it is not one that is usually on the syllabus) and I use it when I teach American Lit!Gotta love a man who knows his Uncle Walt! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members kburkhal66 Posted September 13, 2009 Author Members Report Share Posted September 13, 2009 I LOVE that poem! I have read it many times in my educational career (even thought it is not one that is usually on the syllabus) and I use it when I teach American Lit!Gotta love a man who knows his Uncle Walt!Thanks Mikayla! Poetry allows us to express our passions and desires and struggles when the world around us seeks only to minimize us to some etheral standard of normality...Okay, that was a little out there - must be the wine talking...I also love Unfolded out of the Folds and O Me, O Life! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Mikayla1 Posted September 13, 2009 Members Report Share Posted September 13, 2009 I think what you say about poetry is definitely true; it does allow us a more subtle and less blatant way to express our feelings - and a true poet can hide various meanings within his /her poems. Also, as a New Critic, I believe that we can find meaning for ourselves and justify it, when we look hard enough.I love his poem, All Is Truth, as well as Had I The Choice:Had I the choice to tally greatest bards,To limn their portraits, stately, beautiful, and emulate at will,Homer, wtih all his wars and warriors - Hector, Achilles, Ajax,Or Shakespeare's woe-entangled Hamlet, Lear, Othello - Tennyson's fair ladies,Metre or wit the best, or choice conceit to wield in perfect rhyme,delight of singers;These, these O sea, all these I'd gladly barter,Would you the undulation of one wave, its trick to me transfer,Or breathe one breath of yours upon my verse,And leave its odor there.However, my favorite poet, is probably Seamus Heaney. I did a whole thesis review on some of his more popular 'Bog' poems, my favorite being Punishment:PunishmentI can feel the tug of the halter at the nape of her neck, the wind on her naked front. It blows her nipples to amber beads, it shakes the frail rigging of her ribs. I can see her drowned body in the bog, the weighing stone, the floating rods and boughs. Under which at first she was a barked sapling that is dug up oak-bone, brain-firkin: her shaved head like a stubble of black corn, her blindfold a soiled bandage, her noose a ring to store the memories of love. Little adultress, before they punished you you were flaxen-haired, undernourished, and your tar-black face was beautiful. My poor scapegoat, I almost love you but would have cast, I know, the stones of silence. I am the artful voyeur of your brain's exposed and darkened combs, your muscles' webbing and all your numbered bones: I who have stood dumb when your betraying sisters, cauled in tar, wept by the railings, who would connive in civilized outrage yet understand the exact and tribal, intimate revenge.OK, I will take of my 'Professor' cap now, and leave the poetry corner for the evening! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members kburkhal66 Posted September 13, 2009 Author Members Report Share Posted September 13, 2009 You are so right. It seems the mark of great poet is that each person can find their own meaning in the words of another. That makes it transcend time, culture, circumstances, etc.Thank you for sharing your favorites...Professor Mikayla ;-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Mikayla1 Posted September 13, 2009 Members Report Share Posted September 13, 2009 Ahh, you are welcome! It isn't all the time that I can share my love of poetry on this forum, so when I get a chance, I am allllll over it! Thanks for the diversion.If you ever want to see any of my personal writings (poetry and whatnot) as I see you have contributed some stories here, check out my blog www.wickedbed.com - (too solicitious?) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members sun_flower969 Posted September 13, 2009 Members Report Share Posted September 13, 2009 ...and a true poet can hide various meanings within his /her poems. Also, as a New Critic, I believe that we can find meaning for ourselves and justify it, when we look hard enough.I totally do that with music! I dig for personal meaning in the lyrics. It impacts me, moves me, haunts me...Deep thoughts... LOL Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members kburkhal66 Posted September 13, 2009 Author Members Report Share Posted September 13, 2009 Ahh, you are welcome! It isn't all the time that I can share my love of poetry on this forum, so when I get a chance, I am allllll over it! Thanks for the diversion.If you ever want to see any of my personal writings (poetry and whatnot) as I see you have contributed some stories here, check out my blog www.wickedbed.com - (too solicitious?)I'm happy to oblige the diversion I did visit your blog a long time ago...I need to get back and check it out though. Thanks for the reminder. Maybe I'll post some original stuff some time for your literary opinion Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members kburkhal66 Posted September 13, 2009 Author Members Report Share Posted September 13, 2009 I totally do that with music! I dig for personal meaning in the lyrics. It impacts me, moves me, haunts me...Deep thoughts... LOLYeah, music can so make the mood and intensify the emotion. There are times I hear a song and it instantly reminds of something in my past. I can feel exactly how I felt at that moment and remember details like they were yesterday.Then there's some music just makes me want to have sex!......LOL (Jose Nunez - Bilingual) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members sun_flower969 Posted September 14, 2009 Members Report Share Posted September 14, 2009 Yeah, music can so make the mood and intensify the emotion. There are times I hear a song and it instantly reminds of something in my past. I can feel exactly how I felt at that moment and remember details like they were yesterday.Then there's some music just makes me want to have sex!......LOL (Jose Nunez - Bilingual)EXACTLY!! (smells sort of do that to me too... yeah in both contexts!)This reminds me something sort of off topic...I have always been sort of a music freak... Back when I was involved in a certain church, I was told that if music makes you move then it's evil, as is dancing. (no seriously) So I said. "What about children's music? it has a beat, it makes the kids move, dance etc, how is THAT evil?" The pastor didn't have much of an answer for me except that children are innocent and bla bla bla... But if it is something naturally ingrained in us that we hear a beat or a rhythm and want to move how is that evil?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members kburkhal66 Posted September 15, 2009 Author Members Report Share Posted September 15, 2009 EXACTLY!! (smells sort of do that to me too... yeah in both contexts!)This reminds me something sort of off topic...I have always been sort of a music freak... Back when I was involved in a certain church, I was told that if music makes you move then it's evil, as is dancing. (no seriously) So I said. "What about children's music? it has a beat, it makes the kids move, dance etc, how is THAT evil?" The pastor didn't have much of an answer for me except that children are innocent and bla bla bla... But if it is something naturally ingrained in us that we hear a beat or a rhythm and want to move how is that evil??I wont rant... but this really bothers me! Sometimes I think religion does more harm than good!True, religion can - when it's foundation is formed from rules instead of faith. But that is a topic for another time and another place I think. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members sun_flower969 Posted September 15, 2009 Members Report Share Posted September 15, 2009 True, religion can - when it's foundation is formed from rules instead of faith. But that is a topic for another time and another place I think.Yeah... sorry didn't mean to jack your thread. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members kburkhal66 Posted September 15, 2009 Author Members Report Share Posted September 15, 2009 Yeah... sorry didn't mean to jack your thread.No Worries - just didn't want to get mired down. I'd rather focus on things that make me smile....like sun flowers for instance... ;-)I need to go read some more Walt Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members sun_flower969 Posted September 15, 2009 Members Report Share Posted September 15, 2009 No Worries - just didn't want to get mired down. I'd rather focus on things that make me smile....like sun flowers for instance... ;-)I need to go read some more Walt Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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