T_Clark

First off, the comment about psychiatric assessment was me being a smart ass. As for the rest, I assumed you were being a smart ass. If you're fair, y...

As I wrote previously, I like this poem. The first two stanzas are lush and evocative... sensual, especially the second. There is particular light in ...

Editing and interpretation are completely different acts. I don't mind being edited in appropriate situations. That often happened when I was an engin...

As I noted in a comment, I think perhaps a psychiatric assessment is more appropriate. I don't see much of positive value in it by any standard. Speak...

I stole your quote from Billy Collins for post in the "Poem meaning" thread.

You and I have discussed this before and we agree. I mostly read for entertainment, although I think there is a third way other than for "meaning" as ...

I do like this poem. I'm thinking about my response.

@"Bitter Crank" - I hope you don't mind me stealing your post for this different thread.

Sure, anti-natalism always makes me bare my teeth. But this is a poetry discussion. As I noted, there is no reason for Larkin's thoughts to be a poem....

Thinking more, I kind of liked, but ignored this image - misery depositing on top of misery like sediment on the continental shelf. Then as I thought ...

This shares the sour distaste for humanity that all anti-natalist polemics do. Added to that is the smug, self-congratulatory, vulgar language. The au...

Unpleasant and dehumanizing with no redeeming humor or purpose. An inconsiderate poem.

I read this poem as ironic and self-deprecatory. I hear it as the imagined voice of a country resident complaining about the influx of all those usele...

I propose a new banning criteria - anyone who puts :rofl: after something they themselves have written. I guess we can give them one warning. :rofl:

Wonderful. Thank you.

Yes. I agree.

I'll describe some of the possessions that matter to me: A New England Patriots hoodie my younger son gave me when he was 15. I don't wear hoodies muc...

Love Lyle Lovett. Love that song. But maybe this one is a little closer to my own attitude towards what I own. Actually, it's exactly how I feel about...

Turns out she is the granddaughter of a good friend of Yeat's, so I think it's likely he does care for her and knows her fairly well. Irish, if that m...

Not a poem, I think, but a symptom. I'll check DSM-5.

Weirder, creepier - perhaps my fetish isn't for dolls but for you.

You made me realize I really like the "yellow hair." It just feels right. Now I'm trying to figure out why. I wonder if it's just the way it sounds, f...

For you, @"Hanover". https://i.redd.it/9qku1gkojep71.png

Yes. We are all in this story together.

For me, the intuitive feel is what it's all about.

@"Tom Storm" So you won't be confused - I deleted the text below from the post after I first posted it because I don't think it's relevant.

I thought Judaism's association with banking came from the fact that in medieval times in Europe Jews were forbidden to practice many professions and ...

I, like you, have not spent a lot of time reading philosophy. I even started a thread called "You don't need to read philosophy to be a philosopher." ...

You just did.

@"Hanover" If you tell him over the phone, it won't be as funny.

To bring an unnecessarily serious point to your ironic paean to brotherhood, my brother and I didn't really become friends until we were in our late 5...

Yes, I thought about that, but went ahead anyway. As I've noted in other posts, Donald Trump Jr. is and always will be funny, even the 1,000th time I ...

Speaking of fucked up funny - when I did it, I found out I am very closely related to Donald Trump Jr.

I like to read interpretations of poems on line sometimes. Most of them are terrible - smug in their certainty. After I wrote the posts above, I went ...

Yes, I agree. I agree with this too. I tend to approach the world through my intellect and I think that is where I am most self-aware. I value clarity...

I didn't really either, but since we are taking these examinations seriously, I thought I should try to think deeper. That's probably silly in this ca...

It struck me recently that the philosophical project, at least my philosophical project, is about awareness. Western philosophy focuses more on awaren...

I think the way you've interpreted the poem makes sense, although I see it as much more ironic and lighthearted than you seem to. I don't see it as a ...

I had always pictured the speaker as perhaps an older brother or uncle of the woman and her as a young adult. I spent some time on Wikipedia too. Turn...

Citalopram for me. If you think I'm cranky now, you should have seen me before.

I've always thought you and I have really different ways of seeing the world. It's surprising, and gratifying, to find we are so much in sync on this.

@"Moliere", @"Amity", @"Dawnstorm", @"javi2541997" I have been really enjoying this discussion and I don't want it to end, so I thought I'd toss anoth...

Yes, I was sure of that, but still my hackles rose. I'm feeling better now.

Until half way through your first paragraph I was revving up to engage in a dispute. But as I read on, I was really impressed. I think you have expres...

It's not "the standard view," it's how I feel about those movies, how I experienced them. I know myself well enough to know my opinions are not influe...

What an odd statement. I think it says more about you than it does about the rest of us.

I remember that too. I used to write out my reports and letters on a yellow legal pad then give it to someone in administration to be typed. I wasn't ...

I really liked Liotta too. The two movies I remember seeing him in were "Goodfellas" and "Something Wild." In both he had a spine-tingling intensity. ...

I have no particular strong interest in the Mafia, but it is an interesting phenomenon. I think GF1 and G2 were good movies. Well written and very wel...

There's not much else for us to discuss then.