On 2022-03-27 3:03 p.m., Zod wrote:
On Sunday, March 27, 2022 at 12:14:30 PM UTC-4, george...@yahoo.ca wrote: >>>
Today's poem on Penny's Poetry Blog:
March, by Rebecca Hey
Could sullen Winter, in his mid career,
Call from his magazine of storm and cloud
A ruder gale than this? How shrill, how loud,
Its angry dissonance assails the ear!
[...]
https://gdancesbetty.blogspot.com/2022/03/march-rebecca-hey.html
Rebecca Hey is darned good....
She is, and her sonnets fit in well. Like here, March starts with the
windy day, but the theme is that the weather's changing and the good weather's coming; a good introductory poem to the month, and a good lead
into Wordsworth's about the first good day of the month.
I like putting in "calendars", poem series for each month of the year. I couldn't do that before, because her whole series wasn't available; but
I think I can fill in the holes now. So for most of this year I'll be
running 2 calendars: her calendar of sonnets, and Spenser's pastoral calendar.
George J. Dance wrote:
On 2022-03-27 3:03 p.m., Zod wrote:
On Sunday, March 27, 2022 at 12:14:30 PM UTC-4, george...@yahoo.ca wrote: >>>
Today's poem on Penny's Poetry Blog:
March, by Rebecca Hey
Could sullen Winter, in his mid career,
Call from his magazine of storm and cloud
A ruder gale than this? How shrill, how loud,
Its angry dissonance assails the ear!
[...]
https://gdancesbetty.blogspot.com/2022/03/march-rebecca-hey.html
Rebecca Hey is darned good....
She is, and her sonnets fit in well. Like here, March starts with the
windy day, but the theme is that the weather's changing and the good weather's coming; a good introductory poem to the month, and a good lead into Wordsworth's about the first good day of the month.
I like putting in "calendars", poem series for each month of the year. I couldn't do that before, because her whole series wasn't available; butSeems to be a good project.
I think I can fill in the holes now. So for most of this year I'll be running 2 calendars: her calendar of sonnets, and Spenser's pastoral calendar.
On 2022-03-27 3:38 p.m., Michael Pendragon wrote:having been killed by an unexpected March snow). The remaining six lines slip into the hopeful renewal of Spring cliché, and end on a weak note by quoting another poem: the "Twenty-third Sunday after Trinity" from John Keble's book "The Christian Year."
This sonnet is a cut above PPB's usual fare (and infinitely better than the entries by you know who). The first eight lines offer a fresh take on the fickle weather of early Spring, despairingly asking where the first buds have gone (apparently
Thank you for the read and the comment; I was very glad to see you doing
both early on, before the inevitable thread drift.
Your comments are dead on. It's very much a transition poem, with, an
ending in the 19th century trope (cliche is harsh, but understandable)
of the sweet spring; while the octet, with the wind as the symbol of
change, is in line with what became the 20th century trope.
Writing in tropes is something I do find a lot, with the minor poets, in
the 19th-century verse; maybe it is the individual poets (which is why they're minor), or maybe it's the venue; this was the time new poets
were emerging through magazine verse, which is a bit more constraining;
but it is common. (Dodge's poem, which ends the month, has much the same message, so I used those two sort of bookend the month.)
I was impressed with your spotting the Keble quotation, which I hadn't recognized. XI probably should have recognized it, since I have the "Twenty-third Sunday after Trinity" blogged (the only Keble poem on the
blog at this point):
https://gdancesbetty.blogspot.com/2016/11/twenty-third-sunday-after-trinity-john.html
"The Christian Year" was a big seller, said to have sold ~ a million
copies, so that tells us a bit about Rebecca Hey's own reading and
thoughts. Unfortunately, there's still a lot I don't know about her.
On Wednesday, March 30, 2022 at 12:31:17 PM UTC-4, Will Dockery wrote:
On Wednesday, March 30, 2022 at 12:26:24 PM UTC-4, michaelmalef...@gmail.com wrote:
On Wednesday, March 30, 2022 at 12:17:35 PM UTC-4, Will Dockery wrote:And I gave my opinion, you shit slinging little monkey.
On Wednesday, March 30, 2022 at 9:45:57 AM UTC-4, Michael Pendragon wrote:We were discussing my opinion
In my opinion, no reason to, Peter Keating.Guess again, Donkey.You mean your sing song rhymes and second handed tropes?
This sonnet is a cut above PPB's usual fare (and infinitely better than the entries by you know who
You asked me who I had been referring to
Today's poem on Penny's Poetry Blog:
March, by Rebecca Hey
Could sullen Winter, in his mid career,
Call from his magazine of storm and cloud
A ruder gale than this? How shrill, how loud,
Its angry dissonance assails the ear!
[...]
https://gdancesbetty.blogspot.com/2022/03/march-rebecca-hey.html
Michael Pendragon wrote:
On Wednesday, March 30, 2022 at 12:31:17 PM UTC-4, Will Dockery wrote:
On Wednesday, March 30, 2022 at 12:26:24 PM UTC-4, michaelmalef...@gmail.com wrote:
On Wednesday, March 30, 2022 at 12:17:35 PM UTC-4, Will Dockery wrote: >>> > > On Wednesday, March 30, 2022 at 9:45:57 AM UTC-4, Michael Pendragon wrote:And I gave my opinion, you shit slinging little monkey.
We were discussing my opinionIn my opinion, no reason to, Peter Keating.Guess again, Donkey.You mean your sing song rhymes and second handed tropes?
This sonnet is a cut above PPB's usual fare (and infinitely better than the entries by you know who
You asked me who I had been referring to
I answered the question for you, you shit slinging little monkey.
:)
On Sunday, March 27, 2022 at 3:40:00 PM UTC-4, genera...@gmail.com wrote:having been killed by an unexpected March snow). The remaining six lines slip into the hopeful renewal of Spring cliché, and end on a weak note by quoting another poem: the "Twenty-third Sunday after Trinity" from John Keble's book "The Christian Year."
On Sunday, March 27, 2022 at 3:39:00 PM UTC-4, michaelmalef...@gmail.com wrote:
This sonnet is a cut above PPB's usual fare (and infinitely better than the entries by you know who). The first eight lines offer a fresh take on the fickle weather of early Spring, despairingly asking where the first buds have gone (apparently
Agreed.......
Shut up, Todd.
On 2022-03-27 3:03 p.m., Zod wrote:
On Sunday, March 27, 2022 at 12:14:30 PM UTC-4, george...@yahoo.ca wrote: >>>
Today's poem on Penny's Poetry Blog:
March, by Rebecca Hey
Could sullen Winter, in his mid career,
Call from his magazine of storm and cloud
A ruder gale than this? How shrill, how loud,
Its angry dissonance assails the ear!
[...]
https://gdancesbetty.blogspot.com/2022/03/march-rebecca-hey.html
Rebecca Hey is darned good....
She is, and her sonnets fit in well. Like here, March starts with the
windy day, but the theme is that the weather's changing and the good weather's coming; a good introductory poem to the month, and a good lead
into Wordsworth's about the first good day of the month.
I like putting in "calendars", poem series for each month of the year. I couldn't do that before, because her whole series wasn't available; but
I think I can fill in the holes now. So for most of this year I'll be
running 2 calendars: her calendar of sonnets, and Spenser's pastoral calendar.
On Sunday, March 27, 2022 at 12:14:30 PM UTC-4, george...@yahoo.ca wrote:
Today's poem on Penny's Poetry Blog:
March, by Rebecca Hey
Could sullen Winter, in his mid career,
Call from his magazine of storm and cloud
A ruder gale than this? How shrill, how loud,
Its angry dissonance assails the ear!
[...]
https://gdancesbetty.blogspot.com/2022/03/march-rebecca-hey.html
Rebecca Hey is darned good....
Today's poem on Penny's Poetry Blog:
March, by Rebecca Hey
Could sullen Winter, in his mid career,
Call from his magazine of storm and cloud
A ruder gale than this? How shrill, how loud,
Its angry dissonance assails the ear!
[...]
https://gdancesbetty.blogspot.com/2022/03/march-rebecca-hey.html
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