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Topic Started: Feb 4 2009, 03:23 AM (250 Views)
mydyingbreath
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I think you just don't like the coldness. You know, unfeeling people have feelings too.
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King Lear
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No, it's the wording, it really turns me off, it's not what it's about. With word choices like "you wore my underwear", whatever that line was, it distracts me with becoming irritated, rolling my eyes, that sort of thing, to even enjoy whatever it's about.
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mydyingbreath
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The kind of poetry you like is so idealistic and only about making things sound pretty. Sometimes things are ugly, boring, or mundane, even repulsive and irritating. But what she was saying by that line is that her (death)baby could see everything, even in her most private moments. She just put it in such a simple and kind of perverse way. When she could have said "your eyes see me bare for what I am". Sure, it sounds less blegh.. but it's cliche.
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King Lear
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A person can't change what turns them off, I guess.
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our*eclipse

I had a hard time reading the Anne Sexton poems too. I understood them, but they were a little too scary or alarming. I felt like I was in the mind of a sick person, so it was hard to read. Her style seems a lot like Sylvia Plath's though, maybe even a little more jumbled. I don't know. The Charlotte Bronte poem was definitely 'nicer'.
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King Lear
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I don't think poetry should have to be something complicated by wording that doesn't make sense. It takes away so much from what it's written about, even the people who praise it more than likely don't understand it.
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our*eclipse

This is "If" by Rudyard Kipling.

If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or, being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or, being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise;

If you can dream--and not make dreams your master;
If you can think--and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with triumph and disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with wornout tools;

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breathe a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on";

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with kings--nor lose the common touch;
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run--
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And--which is more--you'll be a Man, my son.
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maverick
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I like Rudyard Kipling's. Alfred Noyes' is very Midsummer Night's Dream to me, I liked that movie : ) haha.. but shh, don't tell anyone. I thought all of the pieces here were good, I read them all. Anne Sexton's are all so sad, aren't they? Poor thing. To me her words are so fragile.
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our*eclipse

Oh no, you mentioned Midsummer Night's Dream, haha..
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maverick
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I noticed that was someone's name here.. my comment was unrelated to this person ; )
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