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  • Two insights

    Thanks. It's nice to know that someone thinks that I have a leg up on the Tuesday Poem (which is a change for me). Besides the cinematic quality of the poem, there seems to be a decided and intentional contrast between the reactions of the poet and of his friend to the same circumstances. The two people seem to be exact opposites temperamentally, ...
    Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on September 3, 2008

  • Re: pea soup

    richard:Self consciously obscure. There are many interpretations of the last stanza which is a forced fit into the first two, primarily descriptive, stanzas. Fog, loom,owl are formula words that are supposed to evoke ominous allusionsIs the friend symbolically dying? Why is she wheeling? Who cares? When a poem can mean anything to anyone it means ...
    Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on September 3, 2008

  • "Walking in Fog": free verse in motion

    You've heard the phrase ''poetry in motion'' applied to many different things and people. ''Walking in Fog'' is free verse in motion in a sense. To me it is like a sequence filmed by a video camera in the poet's hand -- or (much more likely) in his mind. This may be no great insight, but the short-film character is one of the several gently ...
    Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on September 3, 2008

  • Re: "Yom Kippur" compared to two Psalms

    Hi Foobs, What you say may well be tied into the very viewpoint that Schultz seems to express: the Reform Jewish viewpoint, if not something more liberal still. (For that or for some other reason, he may well be something of an outsider to his own people's religious tradition. It would be interesting to cross-check his C.V. and find out.) Take a ...
    Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on August 29, 2008

  • "Yom Kippur" compared to two Psalms

    This week seems to have been a busy one, with regard to the Tuesday Poem. The subject matter is a couple of months early, but then had it been posted ''in season'' I probably wouldn't have seen it. You see, if all goes well I will be in London, England on Yom Kippur -- or Yom Kippurim (יום כפורים), as the Hebrew Bible actually puts the term (as ...
    Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on August 29, 2008

  • Re: Wretched execution (right job, wrong tool)

    Interesting explanation of what you think is the problem. Maybe in my case, the problem is that I write like I read and I read like I write. Either way, I get almost as puzzled as you at what we get on Tuesdays. Wretched execution, eh? Why then is the language so relatively elegant of itself? That's worth thinking about. It's as if the condemned ...
    Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on August 22, 2008

  • Re: The medium is the message

    Dear HAP, The medium is the message... No one would agree more quickly than I. That's precisely why I raised the issues I did in the first place. Whatever else the poem is, it's not oriented toward people like me who try to hew to the line of form following function. I don't need to have a poem's structure toyed with arbitrarily in order to ...
    Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on August 14, 2008

  • Re: A bristle of wings on the anime

    falcon:I mentioned in another post one explanation - the break at simple implies two different ways to read the following lines. That's lost in your edition. Also: a choice of varying line length. You've given a perfectly sufficient explanation: Certainly the resulting effect is different. Yeah, I was afraid of missing something in the structure ...
    Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on August 13, 2008

  • Re: A bristle of wings on the anime

    Foobs:As a huge Hayao Miyazaki fan, I feel compelled to ask what anime you've been watching... Reading the other posts about the poem, I'm struck by how different all the ''what it's about''s are. To my mind, if people don't agree on what you're saying, you either aren't saying anything or you aren't saying it well. There are certainly ...
    Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on August 13, 2008

  • Re: A bristle of wings on the anime

    waltz and capsize: only time enough to note I'd mentioned you in ref. to this poem just this morning. from another thread: (On this score, we miss, in discussion of Bristle, White Rabbit, who seems to order his life by Occam. He always thinks horses, never zebras-- unless he's on the Serengeti.) Have you ever been on the Serengeti, WR? To ...
    Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on August 13, 2008
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