Well, Poetry review on a sci-fi website.
The_Muted_Grimaud Send a noteboard - 01/02/2012 05:29:03 AM
Rhyme is really out and even frowned upon these days, it seems, but there are some who can write poetry that rhymes and yet is as good in terms of word choice as the non-rhyming kind. Tennyson comes to mind, my personal favourite Flecker, and this guy is pretty impressive as well.
I was hoping the Unknown Goddess would tempt some in, it is kind of a fantastical name. Rhyming poetry is on the out and out these days, I went to a concert that featured some of Queens College's Poetry students (seriously, people getting MA's in poetry ... I can't really talk I'm getting one in music composition
' /> ). No rhyming, Some of them used recognizable structure but a lot were hard to pin down. I'm such a conservative when it comes to poetry though, I like my more rigid forms and structure.
The Splendour Falls is a good Tennyson poem too.
The splendour falls on castle walls
And snowy summits old in story:
The long light shakes across the lakes
And the wild cataract leaps in glory.
Blow, bugle, blow, set the wild echoes flying,
Blow, bugle; answer, echoes, dying, dying, dying.
O hark, oh hear! how thin and clear,
And thinner, clearer, farther going!
O sweet and far from hill and scar
The horns of Elfland faintly blowing!
Blow, let us hear the purple glens replying:
Blow bugle; answer, echoes, dying, dying, dying.
O love, they die in yon rich sky,
They faint on hill or field or river:
Our echoes roll from soul to soul,
And grow for ever and for ever.
Blow, bugle, blow, set the wild echoes flying,
And answer, echoes, answer, dying, dying, dying.
Three composers have set that to music, Britten's is the most famous because it's part of this Horn, Tenor, Orchestra piece that's relatively famous.
The Unknown Goddess - Humbert Wolfe
- 24/01/2012 06:48:27 AM
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I don't know why nobody replied to this - I really liked those poems.
- 26/01/2012 08:56:30 PM
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Well, Poetry review on a sci-fi website.
- 01/02/2012 05:29:03 AM
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Bah! This is a books board, not a sci-fi board. We can discuss all prose, why not poetry?
- 01/02/2012 09:28:23 PM
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