I think that poetry can be boring, but there are some gems. For example "If" by Rudyard Kipling.
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Predator wrote:
I think that poetry can be boring, but there are some gems. For example "If" by Rudyard Kipling.
what about If by Telly Savalas ?
... maybe not ...
I like Wilfred Owen's war stuff
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Predator wrote:
I think that poetry can be boring, but there are some gems. For example "If" by Rudyard Kipling.
I agree with you. I find the bulk of poetry quite dull- it just does not speak to me. I think it's a bit like music- you have to find the stuff that sparks your soul.
The one poet that I do enjoy is Lord Byron. I love "Elegy for Newstead Abbey" and his "If Sometimes in the Haunts of Men." I also like an American poet- Robert Frost. The one called "Walking by the Woods on a snowy evening". We had to memorise that one for a class, and it always stuck with me.
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The trouble is with a lot of poetry is that you have to work at it......you have to open yourself up to it and, mostly our lives are too busy and distracting for us to spend time sitting over, say just one page of verse.
When I was a naughty schoolboy, I was given a punishment. I had to learn William Blake's Jerusalem by heart and recite it in front of the whole school standing on a table. I hated doing it but have always loved the poem ever since and can s till recite it!
Maybe we need a less aggressive way to force ourselves to really sit down and work at appreciating a poem.
The same is really true about a lot of music - especially classical and jazz - where there is a lot more there than most people give themselves time to realise.
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