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Jazz and/or classical music I listen to and appreciate when I'm in a certain mood or frame of mind. The reason I've popped in. I've been listening to ...

Well, why not listen to Liszt! Liszt, La tombe et la rose, S. 285 (1844) - with score and subtitles https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4oOqSEgJAE As wel...

This feeling of dread and anxiety is perfectly natural and understandable. It's one of the reasons I have been attracted to this thread; a most welcom...

I will take time to read your wonderful post later. Thank you so much :flower: Also, this:

Thanks again for all the time and effort you are putting into this discussion :100: :up:

Thanks for your response. The 'pursuit' is nothing more than giving examples of other traditions and outlooks. There is nothing particularly 'noble' a...

Thanks. You've paid more attention to the poem than I did. It's made me look again and I have still more to see... I wondered about the translator and...

Ah yes, I see that now. Still, I think it's clever. It surprises and makes us think. 'Terse' as applied to humans can be compact, and concise. Smoothl...

Interesting. I hadn't thought of audio versions as being interpretations. But you are right. It is why I choose readers with a good voice suited to my...

Thank you. Your post has given me plenty to think about meaning; how it is made and infuenced. As you and Srap point out, it is shaped by words; their...

Well, I'm not sure that you can make a general claim about 'modern poets' from a single, stand out example of 'Modernism': https://en.wikipedia.org/wi...

I haven't read The Wasteland, have to admit I'd never even heard of it. I'm interested in 'the sound of the poem', so I searched Librivox: There are q...

FutureLearn course quite good. One student commented that he enjoyed listening to poetry podcasts gaining a better appreciation of old and new poets/p...

How to begin one's day? How should, could, would one begin one's day? Depends on time, place and person; context and circumstance. Not the same as 'Ho...

Poetic Phrases we use without knowing from whence they came: HWL - The Theologian’s Tale, Part IV, Verse 1

I'm sorry I passed this by. Thank you for the link. I didn't know much about Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (HWL). Turns out he was quite the traveller an...

And now my favourite language. Italian. L'italiano è la lingua della musica :cool: Listen as you read the poem below: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=...

I'm slow on the uptake. Love the Cope and Cuthbert couplet comparisons 1. and 2. :up:

Where are you finding them? The short form suits me well :flower: So, a simple couplet. Clever; reflecting title and theme. What do you think/feel whe...

I'm sure there must be a third way. There always is. Goldilocks tells me so...

Moi aussi :cool: I like every which way it turns.

Ah, you're talking about 'Serenity Prayer' by Brian Bilston. The thoughts just spilled out as I was racking my brain as to what the rhythm reminded me...

There's a free 4-week course on FutureLearn: Poetry: How to read a poem - University of York

Arrêter! Bugger off to Deep Songs. This post will now self-destruct :fire:

Why not? But enough already! GOTO the Lounge. It's where it's at :cool:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNFe4nak-oM I remember when I was a little girl, our house caught on fire. I'll never forget the look on my father's f...

Never mind reality. Sing 'Is that all there is?' by Peggy Lee.

Well, you can join in too. With your flair for language, you can take the first verse :cool: 'Floruit' - I thought you were flourishing your français ...

Thank you :clap:

Thank you. Your whole post is a pleasure to read. I've saved it for later. I appreciate you taking a short poem to show how analysis can work to impro...

Elsewhere, I proposed a change of the lyrics of 'Yes, We Have No Bananas' for the benefit of a new philosophy club: 'Yes, We Have No Idea/s'. It seems...

:smile: I knew you were clueless! :roll: What kind of an idea don't you have? I have an idea. Let's start a YWHNIC. 'Yes, We Have No Idea/s Club'. You...

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6NXnxTNIWkc

If they hit home the heart, the pain and pleasure, then songs will sell. I might be right but you better not let it/life go. It's transactional, innit...

Hadn't heard of @"Srap Tasmaner"'s 'WCM' but now I have. William Carlos Williams: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/william-carlos-williams

No worries. I don't do 'bad blood'...much. Certainly not in this kind of discussion :sparkle:

Thank you. I much prefer the feeling/meaning but form is good for me too. I've learned a lot about how it contributes. It took a lot of questions to g...

You're forgiven but only because I'm an :halo: with a :naughty: streak. Take care :sparkle:

I love/d this song but paying more attention to the lyrics: Sometimes we don't even know or trust ourselves. As for 'just get yourself together'! Then...

Well, I have my limits. And I think I've reached them. I might leave the rest to others. Thanks anyway :up:

Funny but not the point, if you're trying to be serious - don't dismiss with carelessness :naughty: It's bad form, old boy :smirk:

. WCW :chin: Woman Crush Wednesday or World Championship Wrestling. 'All donnets day the dame thing' :cool:

Do you have an easy-to-understand example of a sonnet?

I just accepted that as true. Unfortunately, you didn't provide a source so that I could check. Do you have one? I found this interesting. Again, not ...

Disagree.

Given that, why pose the question of 'what constitutes a phrase?' and the follow-up: If there are a number of phrases in a 'string', I would have thou...

What kind of a phrase? https://natureofwriting.com/courses/sentence-structure/lessons/phrases/topic/phrases/ What kind of a string? Examples? What is ...

When I woke up this morning You were on my mind... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29uNvGHsRlc

'What is an unreal idea'? That got me wondering if the opposite of 'real' is 'unreal'. Should it be nonreal, irreal...? Sticking with 'unreal', there'...