For any of you poetry lovers out there … here (in honor of National Poetry Month) are some of the things I’ve written about poetry, poets, book excerpts, my own life as it relates to certain poems, whatever.
The ship in the air – Clonmacnoise and Seamus Heaney
The More Loving One … Auden, and 9/11
On Wilfred Owen: “My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity”
On Ludwig Bemelmans: “In an old house in Paris that was covered with vines”
“Her blacks crackle and drag” … Sylvia Plath’s birthday
Omigod William Blake. William Blake? William Blake! One of my all-time favorite poets.
Jonathan Swift … as Yeats wrote: “Imitate him if you dare”
Elizabeth Bishop … For example:
One Art
by Elizabeth Bishop
The art of losing isn’t hard to master;
so many things seem filled with the intent
to be lost that their loss is no disaster.
Lose something every day. Accept the fluster
of lost door keys, the hour badly spent.
The art of losing isn’t hard to master.
Then practice losing farther, losing faster:
places, and names, and where it was you meant
to travel. None of these will bring disaster.
I lost my mother’s watch. And look! my last, or
next-to-last, of three loved houses went.
The art of losing isn’t hard to master.
I lost two cities, lovely ones. And, vaster,
some realms I owned, two rivers, a continent.
I miss them, but it wasn’t a disaster.
–Even losing you (the joking voice, a gesture
I love) I shan’t have lied. It’s evident
the art of losing’s not too hard to master
though it may look like (Write it!) like disaster.
Robert Frost … “snowy woods”
Hope you enjoy!!
Swift wrote poetry? How’d I miss that “red education’ seminar?…
Looking at the date of the post I think I was on vacation. (Note to self: must make sure every vacation spot has high speed wireless in the future)
You might also enjoy Waiting for April which is a blog a friend of mine maintains during the month of April in celebration of National Poetry Month.
LOVED the Elizabeth Bishop poem. Thank you for posting that.