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Re: More of my homework assignments.
Ah, this is what you meant elsewhere by not breaking training.I see(Said he)How farYou areProgressing. O bard,It's hardTo rhyme,But I'mDigressing. As in so much else, I am self-taught in poetry (and self-defined as ''an amateur light verse writer''). I never tried such a disciplined course in writing poetry (not since high school). I just fly by ...
Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on April 23, 2008
Parallelism in ancient Semitic poetry
Hi Waltz, One has to get used to the rhetoric of ancient Semitic poetry before one's ear is trained to tell the difference between a translation that takes the rhetoric into account and one that doesn't. To me, the difference is salient and non-negligible. Practice with the Psalms in their original musical dress has helped me enormously in this ...
Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on March 29, 2008
Re: A 4,000-year-old poem
This is a very impressive poem, after its archaic style! It's interesting all the same that Tom Sleigh ignored (willy-nilly) the salient feature of ancient Semitic poetry, which is parallelism. Without it, the real rhetoric of the poem is not just lost in translation, but is excluded from it beforehand. Had he not ignored parallelism, this is ...
Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on March 28, 2008
(חג פירים) Today is the first day of Purim
The first day of Purim started on Thursday evening at sunset. The second day (aka Shushan Purim) will start on Friday evening at sunset, and coincide with the weekly Sabbath. (I don't know how that latter fact affects Judaic observance of the holiday. It would be interesting to find out.) Too bad this week isn't my turn for Thursday OPP. I ...
Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on March 21, 2008
(המקרא) "The Bow": David's Elegy (YouTube)
From the Poems Fray: (המקרא) ''The Bow'': David's Elegy (YouTube)by White_Rabbit 03/03/2008, 11:18 AM Here is my latest slideshow of biblical Hebrew poetry (or more exactly, melopoesis). It features David's Elegy for Saul and Jonathan, aka ''The Bow'' (2 Samuel 1:19-27), with Hebrew text, Latinized transliteration and English translation. The ...
Posted to Faith-Based by White_Rabbit on March 11, 2008
"The Bow (David's Elegy)" - Repost: Any comments?
(המקרא) ''The Bow'': David's Elegy (YouTube)by White_Rabbit 03/03/2008, 11:18 AM Here is my latest slideshow of biblical Hebrew poetry (or more exactly, melopoesis). It features David's Elegy for Saul and Jonathan, aka ''The Bow'' (2 Samuel 1:19-27), with Hebrew text, Latinized transliteration and English translation. The Hebrew word in the ...
Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on March 11, 2008
Re: "The Offense of Poetry"
In another post, islandtime wrote: Hazard Adams (love the name, but it sounds more like he should be wrestling grizzly bears than writing books) is a Univ. of Wash. professor whose new book is titled, ''The Offense of Poetry.'' From the UW bookstore site, here's a partial description of the book: There is something offensive and scandalous ...
Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on March 7, 2008
(המקרא) "The Bow": David's Elegy (YouTube)
Here is my latest slideshow of biblical Hebrew poetry (or more exactly, melopoesis). It features David's Elegy for Saul and Jonathan, aka ''The Bow'' (2 Samuel 1:19-27), with Hebrew text, Latinized transliteration and English translation. The Hebrew word in the title of this post, ha-Miqra (המקרא), is different from the shalom (שלום) I've been ...
Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on March 3, 2008
()() Some "melopoesis" by Dolly Parton
Click on the link to hear (and see) the following song by Dolly Parton (which was forwarded to me by a friend just now). wr ()() Hello GodHello, God, are you out there? Can you hear me? Are you listenin' any more? Hello, God, if we're still on speakin' terms, Can you help me like before? I have questioned your existence, My resistance leaves me ...
Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on February 13, 2008
Re: Frank Bidart's "Valentine"...Plato Anyone?
Wow. You aced this one, A. Thanks for all the information! My general thoughts still stand, in my own treatment. What you give here makes me appreciate all the more the positive aspects of this poem. What you give here also makes me wonder all the more what might have been had a more syntactically traditional form been used. Handled rightly, the ...
Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on February 12, 2008

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