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George J. Dance
2019-08-11 13:45:43 UTC
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Today's poem on Penny's Poetry Blog:
By the Sea, by Christina Rossetti

Why does the sea moan evermore?
Shut out from heaven it makes its moan,
It frets against the boundary shore;
All earth's full rivers cannot fill
The sea, that drinking thirsteth still.
[...]

https://gdancesbetty.blogspot.com/2019/08/by-sea-why-does-sea-moan-evermore-shut.html
Rex Hunter Jr.
2019-08-12 03:24:37 UTC
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Post by George J. Dance
By the Sea, by Christina Rossetti
Why does the sea moan evermore?
Shut out from heaven it makes its moan,
It frets against the boundary shore;
All earth's full rivers cannot fill
The sea, that drinking thirsteth still.
[...]
https://gdancesbetty.blogspot.com/2019/08/by-sea-why-does-sea-moan-evermore-shut.html
I remember this poet from some group or another....
George J. Dance
2019-08-13 00:44:09 UTC
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Post by George J. Dance
By the Sea, by Christina Rossetti
Why does the sea moan evermore?
Shut out from heaven it makes its moan,
It frets against the boundary shore;
All earth's full rivers cannot fill
The sea, that drinking thirsteth still.
[...]
https://gdancesbetty.blogspot.com/2019/08/by-sea-why-does-sea-moan-evermore-shut.html
I remember this poet from some group or another....
She was well-known in her day, for her writing and her family; her brothers Gabriel (Dante) and Michael were also poets. Louis Untermeyer compares her with Emily Dickinson as an influence in her country; I don't know if that's online, but I have a book somewhere with an essay by him in which he starts the era of Modern Poetry with 1830, the year of both women's birth.
Michael Pendragon
2019-08-13 03:03:07 UTC
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By the Sea, by Christina Rossetti
Why does the sea moan evermore?
Shut out from heaven it makes its moan,
It frets against the boundary shore;
All earth's full rivers cannot fill
The sea, that drinking thirsteth still.
[...]
https://gdancesbetty.blogspot.com/2019/08/by-sea-why-does-sea-moan-evermore-shut.html
I remember this poet from some group or another....
She was well-known in her day, for her writing and her family; her brothers Gabriel (Dante) and Michael were also poets. Louis Untermeyer compares her with Emily Dickinson as an influence in her country; I don't know if that's online, but I have a book somewhere with an essay by him in which he starts the era of Modern Poetry with 1830, the year of both women's birth.
That's a very diplomatic way of explaining to Lady Bunny that Christina Rossetti was not a member of the rec.arts.poetry group.
Rex Hunter Jr.
2019-08-14 03:23:09 UTC
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By the Sea, by Christina Rossetti
Why does the sea moan evermore?
Shut out from heaven it makes its moan,
It frets against the boundary shore;
All earth's full rivers cannot fill
The sea, that drinking thirsteth still.
[...]
https://gdancesbetty.blogspot.com/2019/08/by-sea-why-does-sea-moan-evermore-shut.html
I remember this poet from some group or another....
She was well-known in her day, for her writing and her family; her brothers Gabriel (Dante) and Michael were also poets. Louis Untermeyer compares her with Emily Dickinson as an influence in her country; I don't know if that's online, but I have a book somewhere with an essay by him in which he starts the era of Modern Poetry with 1830, the year of both women's birth.
That's a very diplomatic way
Better than your gay lami8ng lying and misogynist way....
Will Dockery
2019-08-14 17:10:57 UTC
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By the Sea, by Christina Rossetti
Why does the sea moan evermore?
Shut out from heaven it makes its moan,
It frets against the boundary shore;
All earth's full rivers cannot fill
The sea, that drinking thirsteth still.
[...]
https://gdancesbetty.blogspot.com/2019/08/by-sea-why-does-sea-moan-evermore-shut.html
I remember this poet from some group or another....
She was well-known in her day, for her writing and her family; her brothers Gabriel (Dante) and Michael were also poets. Louis Untermeyer compares her with Emily Dickinson as an influence in her country; I don't know if that's online, but I have a book somewhere with an essay by him in which he starts the era of Modern Poetry with 1830, the year of both women's birth.
That's a very diplomatic way of explaining to Lady Bunny
Jon Ingle is posting here now?

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Peter J Ross
2019-08-27 16:54:43 UTC
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In alt.arts.poetry.comments on Mon, 12 Aug 2019 20:03:07 -0700 (PDT),
Post by Michael Pendragon
Post by George J. Dance
Post by Rex Hunter Jr.
Post by George J. Dance
By the Sea, by Christina Rossetti
Why does the sea moan evermore?
Shut out from heaven it makes its moan,
It frets against the boundary shore;
All earth's full rivers cannot fill
The sea, that drinking thirsteth still.
[...]
https://gdancesbetty.blogspot.com/2019/08/by-sea-why-does-sea-moan-evermore-shut.html
I remember this poet from some group or another....
She was well-known in her day, for her writing and her family; her
brothers Gabriel (Dante) and Michael were also poets. Louis
Untermeyer compares her with Emily Dickinson as an influence in her
country; I don't know if that's online, but I have a book somewhere
with an essay by him in which he starts the era of Modern Poetry
with 1830, the year of both women's birth.
That's a very diplomatic way of explaining to Lady Bunny that
Christina Rossetti was not a member of the rec.arts.poetry group.
But her helpful comments in alt.arts.poetry.slam.hiphop.grime will
never be forgotten.
--
PJR :-)

τὸν οἰόμενον νόον ἔχειν ὁ νουθετέων ματαιοπονεῖ.
- Democritus
Rex Hunter Jr.
2019-08-13 03:41:28 UTC
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By the Sea, by Christina Rossetti
Why does the sea moan evermore?
Shut out from heaven it makes its moan,
It frets against the boundary shore;
All earth's full rivers cannot fill
The sea, that drinking thirsteth still.
[...]
https://gdancesbetty.blogspot.com/2019/08/by-sea-why-does-sea-moan-evermore-shut.html
I remember this poet from some group or another....
She was well-known in her day, for her writing and her family; her brothers Gabriel (Dante) and Michael were also poets. Louis Untermeyer compares her with Emily Dickinson as an influence in her country; I don't know if that's online, but I have a book somewhere with an essay by him in which he starts the era of Modern Poetry with 1830, the year of both women's birth.
Thanks G.D.

No thanks to Pendragon, as usual......
Rex Hunter Jr.
2019-08-13 23:42:58 UTC
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By the Sea, by Christina Rossetti
Why does the sea moan evermore?
Shut out from heaven it makes its moan,
It frets against the boundary shore;
All earth's full rivers cannot fill
The sea, that drinking thirsteth still.
[...]
https://gdancesbetty.blogspot.com/2019/08/by-sea-why-does-sea-moan-evermore-shut.html
I remember this poet from some group or another....
She was well-known in her day, for her writing and her family; her brothers Gabriel (Dante) and Michael were also poets. Louis Untermeyer compares her with Emily Dickinson as an influence in her country; I don't know if that's online, but I have a book somewhere with an essay by him in which he starts the era of Modern Poetry with 1830, the year of both women's birth.
Thnx G.D.
George J. Dance
2019-08-13 23:51:29 UTC
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By the Sea, by Christina Rossetti
Why does the sea moan evermore?
Shut out from heaven it makes its moan,
It frets against the boundary shore;
All earth's full rivers cannot fill
The sea, that drinking thirsteth still.
[...]
https://gdancesbetty.blogspot.com/2019/08/by-sea-why-does-sea-moan-evermore-shut.html
I remember this poet from some group or another....
She was well-known in her day, for her writing and her family; her brothers Gabriel (Dante) and Michael were also poets. Louis Untermeyer compares her with Emily Dickinson as an influence in her country; I don't know if that's online, but I have a book somewhere with an essay by him in which he starts the era of Modern Poetry with 1830, the year of both women's birth.
Thnx G.D.
No prob. BTW, I can't stand "thirsteth Still." It's a tongue=twister that really should have been replaced.
Michael Pendragon
2019-08-14 15:46:53 UTC
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By the Sea, by Christina Rossetti
Why does the sea moan evermore?
Shut out from heaven it makes its moan,
It frets against the boundary shore;
All earth's full rivers cannot fill
The sea, that drinking thirsteth still.
[...]
https://gdancesbetty.blogspot.com/2019/08/by-sea-why-does-sea-moan-evermore-shut.html
I remember this poet from some group or another....
She was well-known in her day, for her writing and her family; her brothers Gabriel (Dante) and Michael were also poets. Louis Untermeyer compares her with Emily Dickinson as an influence in her country; I don't know if that's online, but I have a book somewhere with an essay by him in which he starts the era of Modern Poetry with 1830, the year of both women's birth.
Thnx G.D.
No prob. BTW, I can't stand "thirsteth Still." It's a tongue=twister that really should have been replaced.
I take it your trolling with that remark, Dunce.

The phrase is used to the poem a Biblical feel, and rolls off the tongue without the slightest impediment.

OTOH, the poem as a whole, is a wildly uneven work, alternating snatches of potential brilliance with a lack of discipline, tonal consistency and focus.
Will Dockery
2019-08-14 16:13:04 UTC
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Post by George J. Dance
By the Sea, by Christina Rossetti
Why does the sea moan evermore?
Shut out from heaven it makes its moan,
It frets against the boundary shore;
All earth's full rivers cannot fill
The sea, that drinking thirsteth still.
[...]
https://gdancesbetty.blogspot.com/2019/08/by-sea-why-does-sea-moan-evermore-shut.html
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the poem as a whole, is a wildly uneven work, alternating snatches of potential brilliance with a lack of discipline, tonal consistency and focus
A great example of how you don't "get" modern poetry, Pendragon.
Michael Pendragon
2019-08-14 16:41:13 UTC
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By the Sea, by Christina Rossetti
Why does the sea moan evermore?
Shut out from heaven it makes its moan,
It frets against the boundary shore;
All earth's full rivers cannot fill
The sea, that drinking thirsteth still.
[...]
https://gdancesbetty.blogspot.com/2019/08/by-sea-why-does-sea-moan-evermore-shut.html
<snip>
Post by Michael Pendragon
the poem as a whole, is a wildly uneven work, alternating snatches of potential brilliance with a lack of discipline, tonal consistency and focus
A great example of how you don't "get" modern poetry, Pendragon.
She was a Victorian poet, Willie. I certainly wouldn't call her a "modern."

Funny how you think she was a modern while Stinky George thought she was a member of some other online poetry group.

And, for the record, I consider her one of my literary peers and like some of her other poems better than this one.
Will Dockery
2019-08-14 16:49:34 UTC
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By the Sea, by Christina Rossetti
Why does the sea moan evermore?
Shut out from heaven it makes its moan,
It frets against the boundary shore;
All earth's full rivers cannot fill
The sea, that drinking thirsteth still.
[...]
https://gdancesbetty.blogspot.com/2019/08/by-sea-why-does-sea-moan-evermore-shut.html
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Post by Michael Pendragon
the poem as a whole, is a wildly uneven work, alternating snatches of potential brilliance with a lack of discipline, tonal consistency and focus
A great example of how you don't "get" modern poetry, Pendragon.
She was a Victorian poet, Willie. I certainly wouldn't call her a "modern."
"Louis Untermeyer compares her with Emily Dickinson as an influence in her country; I don't know if that's online, but I have a book somewhere with an essay by him in which he starts the era of Modern Poetry with 1830, the year of both women's birth..." -George Dance
Michael Pendragon
2019-08-14 17:45:18 UTC
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By the Sea, by Christina Rossetti
Why does the sea moan evermore?
Shut out from heaven it makes its moan,
It frets against the boundary shore;
All earth's full rivers cannot fill
The sea, that drinking thirsteth still.
[...]
https://gdancesbetty.blogspot.com/2019/08/by-sea-why-does-sea-moan-evermore-shut.html
<snip>
Post by Michael Pendragon
the poem as a whole, is a wildly uneven work, alternating snatches of potential brilliance with a lack of discipline, tonal consistency and focus
A great example of how you don't "get" modern poetry, Pendragon.
She was a Victorian poet, Willie. I certainly wouldn't call her a "modern."
"Louis Untermeyer compares her with Emily Dickinson as an influence in her country; I don't know if that's online, but I have a book somewhere with an essay by him in which he starts the era of Modern Poetry with 1830, the year of both women's birth..." -George Dance
Louis Untermeyer was mistaken; nor does one date a literary era from its (alleged) earliest representatives' birth. AFAIC, "Modern Poetry" (used as a synonym for "Modernist") dates from around 1900 (with a good deal of overlap in both directions).
Will Dockery
2019-08-14 18:15:34 UTC
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Post by George J. Dance
By the Sea, by Christina Rossetti
Why does the sea moan evermore?
Shut out from heaven it makes its moan,
It frets against the boundary shore;
All earth's full rivers cannot fill
The sea, that drinking thirsteth still.
[...]
https://gdancesbetty.blogspot.com/2019/08/by-sea-why-does-sea-moan-evermore-shut.html
<snip>
Post by Michael Pendragon
the poem as a whole, is a wildly uneven work, alternating snatches of potential brilliance with a lack of discipline, tonal consistency and focus
A great example of how you don't "get" modern poetry, Pendragon.
She was a Victorian poet, Willie. I certainly wouldn't call her a "modern."
"Louis Untermeyer compares her with Emily Dickinson as an influence in her country; I don't know if that's online, but I have a book somewhere with an essay by him in which he starts the era of Modern Poetry with 1830, the year of both women's birth..." -George Dance
Louis Untermeyer was mistaken; nor does one date a literary era from its (alleged) earliest representatives' birth. AFAIC, "Modern Poetry" (used as a synonym for "Modernist") dates from around 1900 (with a good deal of overlap in both directions).
Modern poetry goes at least as far back as Rimbaud, but, true, 1910-1917 is often named as the time period that "modern poetry" really got rolling.
George J. Dance
2019-08-14 19:04:51 UTC
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"Louis Untermeyer compares her with Emily Dickinson as an influence in her country; I don't know if that's online, but I have a book somewhere with an essay by him in which he starts the era of Modern Poetry with 1830, the year of both women's birth..." -George Dance
Louis Untermeyer was mistaken; nor does one date a literary era from its (alleged) earliest representatives' birth.
I'd prefer to find the book and post the quotation, before saying whether I agree with it or not. If you'd prefer to disagree with it without reading it, that's no skin off anyone else's ass.

AFAIC, "Modern Poetry" (used as a synonym for "Modernist") dates from around 1900 (with a good deal of overlap in both directions).

Funny: I'd have expected you to claim that there wasn't any "Modernist" poetry in the early 1900s because the concept of "Modernism" didn't exist at the time.
Michael Pendragon
2019-08-14 19:58:46 UTC
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"Louis Untermeyer compares her with Emily Dickinson as an influence in her country; I don't know if that's online, but I have a book somewhere with an essay by him in which he starts the era of Modern Poetry with 1830, the year of both women's birth..." -George Dance
Louis Untermeyer was mistaken; nor does one date a literary era from its (alleged) earliest representatives' birth.
I'd prefer to find the book and post the quotation, before saying whether I agree with it or not. If you'd prefer to disagree with it without reading it, that's no skin off anyone else's ass.
I know enough about the history of poetry to realize that Mr. Untermeyer was mistaken (assuming you hadn't misquoted him, of course).
Post by George J. Dance
AFAIC, "Modern Poetry" (used as a synonym for "Modernist") dates from around 1900 (with a good deal of overlap in both directions).
Funny: I'd have expected you to claim that there wasn't any "Modernist" poetry in the early 1900s because the concept of "Modernism" didn't exist at the time.
"AFAIC" ("as far as I'm concerned") clearly shows that I am labeling it from my vantage point in 2019. I am not arguing that the "concept" of Modernism existed prior to 1924.
Rex Hunter Jr.
2019-08-14 23:36:32 UTC
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"Louis Untermeyer compares her with Emily Dickinson as an influence in her country; I don't know if that's online, but I have a book somewhere with an essay by him in which he starts the era of Modern Poetry with 1830, the year of both women's birth..." -George Dance
Louis Untermeyer was mistaken; nor does one date a literary era from its (alleged) earliest representatives' birth.
I'd prefer to find the book and post the quotation, before saying whether I agree with it or not. If you'd prefer to disagree with it without reading it, that's no skin off anyone else's ass.
AFAIC, "Modern Poetry" (used as a synonym for "Modernist") dates from around 1900 (with a good deal of overlap in both directions).
Funny: I'd have expected you to claim that there wasn't any "Modernist" poetry in the early 1900s because the concept of "Modernism" didn't exist at the time.
Modern poetry begain with experiments by the Avant Garde, Mina Loy was among them, as was H.D.
Michael Pendragon
2019-08-15 03:13:05 UTC
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"Louis Untermeyer compares her with Emily Dickinson as an influence in her country; I don't know if that's online, but I have a book somewhere with an essay by him in which he starts the era of Modern Poetry with 1830, the year of both women's birth..." -George Dance
Louis Untermeyer was mistaken; nor does one date a literary era from its (alleged) earliest representatives' birth.
I'd prefer to find the book and post the quotation, before saying whether I agree with it or not. If you'd prefer to disagree with it without reading it, that's no skin off anyone else's ass.
AFAIC, "Modern Poetry" (used as a synonym for "Modernist") dates from around 1900 (with a good deal of overlap in both directions).
Funny: I'd have expected you to claim that there wasn't any "Modernist" poetry in the early 1900s because the concept of "Modernism" didn't exist at the time.
Modern poetry begain with experiments by the Avant Garde, Mina Loy was among them, as was H.D.
Shut up, Todd.
Rex Hunter Jr.
2019-08-15 03:59:55 UTC
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"Louis Untermeyer compares her with Emily Dickinson as an influence in her country; I don't know if that's online, but I have a book somewhere with an essay by him in which he starts the era of Modern Poetry with 1830, the year of both women's birth..." -George Dance
Louis Untermeyer was mistaken; nor does one date a literary era from its (alleged) earliest representatives' birth.
I'd prefer to find the book and post the quotation, before saying whether I agree with it or not. If you'd prefer to disagree with it without reading it, that's no skin off anyone else's ass.
AFAIC, "Modern Poetry" (used as a synonym for "Modernist") dates from around 1900 (with a good deal of overlap in both directions).
Funny: I'd have expected you to claim that there wasn't any "Modernist" poetry in the early 1900s because the concept of "Modernism" didn't exist at the time.
Modern poetry begain with experiments by the Avant Garde, Mina Loy was among them, as was H.D.
Shut up, Todd.
Made you look....

Ha ha ha...
Peter J Ross
2019-08-27 17:07:18 UTC
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In alt.arts.poetry.comments on Wed, 14 Aug 2019 08:46:53 -0700 (PDT),
Post by Michael Pendragon
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By the Sea, by Christina Rossetti
Why does the sea moan evermore?
Shut out from heaven it makes its moan,
It frets against the boundary shore;
All earth's full rivers cannot fill
The sea, that drinking thirsteth still.
[...]
https://<SPAM>
I remember this poet from some group or another....
LOL!
Post by Michael Pendragon
Post by George J. Dance
Post by Rex Hunter Jr.
Post by George J. Dance
She was well-known in her day, for her writing and her family;
her brothers Gabriel (Dante) and Michael were also poets. Louis
Untermeyer compares her with Emily Dickinson as an influence in
her country; I don't know if that's online, but I have a book
somewhere with an essay by him in which he starts the era of
Modern Poetry with 1830, the year of both women's birth.
Thnx G.D.
No prob. BTW, I can't stand "thirsteth Still." It's a
tongue=twister that really should have been replaced.
Poor Dunce. He hates poetry and has no hope of understanding it, but
he can't make a profit from his plagiarised kooksite if he doesn't
spam poems to Usenet (without, of course, reading them first), so he
has to pretend to be interested in the poems he's spammed.
Post by Michael Pendragon
I take it your trolling with that remark, Dunce.
The phrase is used to the poem a Biblical feel,
I'm not sure about that. It might as well be a Shakespearian feel, a
Chaucerian feel, or (what it really is) a Victorian feel.
Post by Michael Pendragon
and rolls off the tongue without the slightest impediment.
It also sounds wonderfully parched.
Post by Michael Pendragon
OTOH, the poem as a whole, is a wildly uneven work, alternating
snatches of potential brilliance with a lack of discipline, tonal
consistency and focus.
So says somebody who thinks Poe, Blake and some other twit whose name
escapes me are "gods".
--
PJR :-)

τὸν οἰόμενον νόον ἔχειν ὁ νουθετέων ματαιοπονεῖ.
- Democritus
Michael Pendragon
2019-08-27 17:52:03 UTC
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In alt.arts.poetry.comments on Wed, 14 Aug 2019 08:46:53 -0700 (PDT),
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By the Sea, by Christina Rossetti
Why does the sea moan evermore?
Shut out from heaven it makes its moan,
It frets against the boundary shore;
All earth's full rivers cannot fill
The sea, that drinking thirsteth still.
[...]
https://<SPAM>
I remember this poet from some group or another....
LOL!
Post by Michael Pendragon
Post by George J. Dance
Post by Rex Hunter Jr.
Post by George J. Dance
She was well-known in her day, for her writing and her family;
her brothers Gabriel (Dante) and Michael were also poets. Louis
Untermeyer compares her with Emily Dickinson as an influence in
her country; I don't know if that's online, but I have a book
somewhere with an essay by him in which he starts the era of
Modern Poetry with 1830, the year of both women's birth.
Thnx G.D.
No prob. BTW, I can't stand "thirsteth Still." It's a
tongue=twister that really should have been replaced.
Poor Dunce. He hates poetry and has no hope of understanding it, but
he can't make a profit from his plagiarised kooksite if he doesn't
spam poems to Usenet (without, of course, reading them first), so he
has to pretend to be interested in the poems he's spammed.
Post by Michael Pendragon
I take it your trolling with that remark, Dunce.
The phrase is used to the poem a Biblical feel,
I'm not sure about that. It might as well be a Shakespearian feel, a
Chaucerian feel, or (what it really is) a Victorian feel.
Post by Michael Pendragon
and rolls off the tongue without the slightest impediment.
It also sounds wonderfully parched.
Post by Michael Pendragon
OTOH, the poem as a whole, is a wildly uneven work, alternating
snatches of potential brilliance with a lack of discipline, tonal
consistency and focus.
So says somebody who thinks Poe, Blake and some other twit whose name
escapes me are "gods".
If Whitman's name escapes you, it could be a sign of the early stages of dementia. I'd have that checked if I were you.
Peter J Ross
2019-08-27 18:02:20 UTC
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By the Sea, by Christina Rossetti
Why does the sea moan evermore? Shut out from heaven it
makes its moan, It frets against the boundary shore; All
earth's full rivers cannot fill The sea, that drinking
thirsteth still. [...]
https://<SPAM>
I remember this poet from some group or another....
LOL!
Post by Michael Pendragon
Post by George J. Dance
Post by Rex Hunter Jr.
Post by George J. Dance
She was well-known in her day, for her writing and her
family; her brothers Gabriel (Dante) and Michael were also
poets. Louis Untermeyer compares her with Emily Dickinson as
an influence in her country; I don't know if that's online,
but I have a book somewhere with an essay by him in which he
starts the era of Modern Poetry with 1830, the year of both
women's birth.
Thnx G.D.
No prob. BTW, I can't stand "thirsteth Still." It's a
tongue=twister that really should have been replaced.
Poor Dunce. He hates poetry and has no hope of understanding it,
but he can't make a profit from his plagiarised kooksite if he
doesn't spam poems to Usenet (without, of course, reading them
first), so he has to pretend to be interested in the poems he's
spammed.
Post by Michael Pendragon
I take it your trolling with that remark, Dunce.
The phrase is used to the poem a Biblical feel,
I'm not sure about that. It might as well be a Shakespearian feel,
a Chaucerian feel, or (what it really is) a Victorian feel.
Post by Michael Pendragon
and rolls off the tongue without the slightest impediment.
It also sounds wonderfully parched.
Post by Michael Pendragon
OTOH, the poem as a whole, is a wildly uneven work, alternating
snatches of potential brilliance with a lack of discipline, tonal
consistency and focus.
So says somebody who thinks Poe, Blake and some other twit whose
name escapes me are "gods".
If Whitman's name escapes you, it could be a sign of the early
stages of dementia. I'd have that checked if I were you.
Yes, Wally "I wash even less often than Dreckery" Whitman was the
talentless twit I was thinking of.

But who the hell are you? And why are you trying to poison my tobacco?



[It sounds as if a big thunderstorm is approaching, so I'll be
switching off now.]
--
PJR :-)

τὸν οἰόμενον νόον ἔχειν ὁ νουθετέων ματαιοπονεῖ.
- Democritus
Will Dockery
2019-08-27 20:30:29 UTC
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By the Sea, by Christina Rossetti
Why does the sea moan evermore?
Shut out from heaven it makes its moan,
It frets against the boundary shore;
All earth's full rivers cannot fill
The sea, that drinking thirsteth still.
[...]
I remember this poet from some group or another....
LOL!
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She was well-known in her day, for her writing and her family;
her brothers Gabriel (Dante) and Michael were also poets. Louis
Untermeyer compares her with Emily Dickinson as an influence in
her country; I don't know if that's online, but I have a book
somewhere with an essay by him in which he starts the era of
Modern Poetry with 1830, the year of both women's birth.
Thnx G.D.
No prob. BTW, I can't stand "thirsteth Still." It's a
tongue=twister that really should have been replaced.
Poor Dunce. He hates poetry and has no hope of understanding it, but
he can't make a profit from his plagiarised kooksite if he doesn't
spam poems to Usenet (without, of course, reading them first), so he
has to pretend to be interested in the poems he's spammed.
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I take it your trolling with that remark, Dunce.
The phrase is used to the poem a Biblical feel,
I'm not sure about that. It might as well be a Shakespearian feel, a
Chaucerian feel, or (what it really is) a Victorian feel.
Post by Michael Pendragon
and rolls off the tongue without the slightest impediment.
It also sounds wonderfully parched.
Post by Michael Pendragon
OTOH, the poem as a whole, is a wildly uneven work, alternating
snatches of potential brilliance with a lack of discipline, tonal
consistency and focus.
So says somebody who thinks Poe, Blake and some other twit whose name
escapes me are "gods".
Not to mention Pat Boone and Tiny Tim...

;)
High Number
2019-08-27 23:18:10 UTC
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Post by Peter J Ross
In alt.arts.poetry.comments on Wed, 14 Aug 2019 08:46:53 -0700 (PDT),
Post by Michael Pendragon
Post by George J. Dance
Post by Rex Hunter Jr.
Post by George J. Dance
Post by Rex Hunter Jr.
Post by George J. Dance
By the Sea, by Christina Rossetti
Why does the sea moan evermore?
Shut out from heaven it makes its moan,
It frets against the boundary shore;
All earth's full rivers cannot fill
The sea, that drinking thirsteth still.
[...]
I remember this poet from some group or another....
LOL!
Post by Michael Pendragon
Post by George J. Dance
Post by Rex Hunter Jr.
Post by George J. Dance
She was well-known in her day, for her writing and her family;
her brothers Gabriel (Dante) and Michael were also poets. Louis
Untermeyer compares her with Emily Dickinson as an influence in
her country; I don't know if that's online, but I have a book
somewhere with an essay by him in which he starts the era of
Modern Poetry with 1830, the year of both women's birth.
Thnx G.D.
No prob. BTW, I can't stand "thirsteth Still." It's a
tongue=twister that really should have been replaced.
Poor Dunce. He hates poetry and has no hope of understanding it, but
he can't make a profit from his plagiarised kooksite if he doesn't
spam poems to Usenet (without, of course, reading them first), so he
has to pretend to be interested in the poems he's spammed.
Post by Michael Pendragon
I take it your trolling with that remark, Dunce.
The phrase is used to the poem a Biblical feel,
I'm not sure about that. It might as well be a Shakespearian feel, a
Chaucerian feel, or (what it really is) a Victorian feel.
Post by Michael Pendragon
and rolls off the tongue without the slightest impediment.
It also sounds wonderfully parched.
Post by Michael Pendragon
OTOH, the poem as a whole, is a wildly uneven work, alternating
snatches of potential brilliance with a lack of discipline, tonal
consistency and focus.
So says somebody who thinks Poe, Blake and some other twit whose name
escapes me are "gods".
Not to mention Pat Boone and Tiny Tim...
;)
Ha ha ha..........

Rex Hunter Jr.
2019-08-13 23:59:43 UTC
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That does read oddly yes....
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