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Poetry Friday: Poem #33, Young Lochinvar by Sir Walter Scott

Posted by Sherry on 9/2/2010 in 2010 Projects, General, Poetry Project, Poets and poetry

“Reduced to its simplest and most essential form, the poem is a song. Song is neither discourse nor explanation.”~Octavio Paz O young Lochinvar is come out of the west, Through all the wide Border his steed was the best; And save his good broadsword he weapons had none, He rode all unarm’d, and he rode [...]

 
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Poem #31: Daffodils by William Wordsworth

Posted by Sherry on 8/20/2010 in General, Poetry Project, Poets and poetry

I did the poetry survey last spring, and then started with great gusto to post one poem per weekday in chronological order of the most popular 100 poems in the survey. At some point I lost momentum, got lazy, and neglected my and your poetic education. Now I’m back with a more humble goal of [...]

 
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How to Be Alone by Tanya Davis

Posted by Sherry on 8/7/2010 in General, Poetry Project, Poets and poetry

Some of you might enjoy this poem. Some of you might need this poem. Being alone is really rather lovely sometimes. A rhythm of alone time and people time is the best. HT: Jama Rattigan’s Alphabet Soup

 
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Poetry Friday: Poem #30, Lucy II by William Wordsworth

Posted by Sherry on 8/6/2010 in General, Poetry Project, Poets and poetry

“Poetry is ‘the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings . . . recollected in tranquility.’”~William Wordsworth Sir William WordsWords proved to be quite popular back when I did my poetry survey, with three poems in the Top 100 list. Wordsworth’s Lucy poems are comprised of five poems written between the years of 1798 and 1801. Nobody [...]

 
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Poem #29: A Red, Red Rose by Robert Burns (1794)

Posted by Sherry on 6/24/2010 in 2010 Projects, General, Poetry Project, Poets and poetry

“Poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music.”~Ezra Pound O, my luve’s like a red, red rose, That’s newly sprung in June. O, my luve’s like the melodie, That’s sweetly play’d in tune. As fair art thou, my bonie lass, So deep in luve am I, And I will luve thee still, [...]

 
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Poem #28: A Poison Tree by William Blake, 1794

Posted by Sherry on 6/4/2010 in 2010 Projects, General, Poetry Project, Poets and poetry

“Poetry reflects on the quality of life, on us as we are in process on this earth, in our lives, in our relationships, in our communities.”~Adrienne RIch I was angry with my friend: I told my wrath, my wrath did end. I was angry with my foe: I told it not, my wrath did grow. [...]

 
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Poem #27: The Clod and the Pebble by William Blake, 1794

Posted by Sherry on 5/30/2010 in 2010 Projects, General, Poetry Project, Poets and poetry

“Out of the quarrel with others we make rhetoric; out of the quarrel with ourselves we make poetry. “~W.B. Yeats “Love seeketh not Itself to please, Nor for itself hath any care; But for another gives its ease, And builds a Heaven in Hell’s despair.” So sung a little Clod of Clay, Trodden with the [...]

 
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Poem #26: The Tyger by William Blake, 1794

Posted by Sherry on 5/19/2010 in 2010 Projects, General, Poetry Project, Poets and poetry

“People should like poetry the way a child likes snow, and they would if poets wrote it.”~Wallace Stevens Tyger! Tyger! burning bright In the forests of the night, What immortal hand or eye Could frame thy fearful symmetry? In what distant deeps or skies Burnt the fire of thine eyes? On what wings dare he [...]

 
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Poem #25: To a Mouse by Robert Burns, 1785

Posted by Sherry on 5/18/2010 in 2010 Projects, General, Poetry Project, Poets and poetry

“All slang is a metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.”~G.K. Chesterton Neoneocon, Ten Poems to Memorize in School: “The dialect is almost impossible, I know. But with an explanation of the meaning of the obscure, archaic words, I think it’s a poem that will appeal to kids of that age. At any rate, it’s a [...]

 
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Poem #24: Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard by Thomas Gray, 1751

Posted by Sherry on 5/17/2010 in 2010 Projects, General, Poetry Project, Poets and poetry

“Read a poem. Taste it. Let it melt over you. Start now.”~Deputy Headmistress at The Common Room Cindy at Ordo Amoris: “This poem is simply perfection: logos, ethos and pathos.” The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd winds slowly o’er the lea, The ploughman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves [...]

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