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I am making an attempt to remain off social media as we speak, however previously in occasions like these I’ve seen some superb poetry shared by pals. So: what’s your favourite poem (or poems)? What strains from poetry reside lease free in your head? Do you will have any poems memorized?
(We have talked about favourite songs earlier than, however not poetry!)
For my $.02, my favourite poems are longstanding ones, chosen years in the past. (Spoiler alert, they’re all a bit moody.)
As a complete I’ve carried these poems with me, and browse, and reread them — for many years, at this level — and it is fascinating each time. I nonetheless bear in mind how I felt once I learn them the primary time, however there have been layers of emotions and meanings added over time. There’s a whole lot of discourse over what the poems imply, after all, and I am positive there is a “right answer” on the market, however I are inclined to let my moods information what the poems imply, and completely different strains within the poems will hit me in a different way over time.
Prufrock is pretty Fundamental, I suppose — is it a Karen poem at this level? Hmmn. Do I dare to disturb the universe, certainly.
I memorized “anyone lived” for a university class and nonetheless learn about 80% of it by coronary heart. Once I was pregnant with my eldest son I used to say it out loud, to my stomach, on a regular basis — I am undecided why, to be trustworthy. At some point shortly after his start, although, in these hazy days of recent motherhood, he wouldn’t cease crying, and I began reciting the poem… and he stopped crying. I wish to assume he acknowledged it, and it calmed him.
45 Mercy Avenue I got here to by Peter Gabriel, who has a beautiful, darkish, layered music known as “Mercy Street.” The primary time I purchased “nice” audio system, this was the music I might ask the BestBuy (or no matter) guys to play. The poem itself is not terribly cheery, and clearly Anne Sexton’s life was not a contented one. I am typically a contented individual, however the “what can it matter” line principally lives lease free in my head.
Two extra random ideas on poetry: First, the guide, Love That Canine, is a fully superb youngsters’s guide when you have a kiddo who does not like studying.
Second, I’ve at all times loved Lin-Manuel Miranda’s efficiency on the White Home Poetry Jam in 2009 — the efficiency is superb, after all, however there’s additionally one thing… uplifting?… about the way in which everybody laughs at him when he begins describing what would turn into the musical “Hamilton;” many assume it’s a joke. My eldest son went by way of an enormous Hamilton part, as so many children do, and I’ve proven him that efficiency as proof that good concepts aren’t at all times acknowledged as sensible from the getgo, and you must persevere.
