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To: dagogo redux

I never saw it although Ginsberg was always pushed on us, but I’m one of those who can’t judge poetry anyway, like a man with no taste buds trying to know what you are talking about with preferred foods and flavors, aside from Tennyson, I have never understood why they don’t just write it out.


40 posted on 05/30/2014 9:28:49 AM PDT by ansel12 ((Ted Cruz and Mike Lee-both of whom sit on the Senate Judiciary Comm as Ginsberg's importance fades)
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To: ansel12

Good taste: Tennyson’s “Ulysses” has been the most influential poem in my life. Another beautiful work drawn from the same story is Wallace Steven’s “World as Meditation,” BTW.

I think the reason most people don’t get poetry is because they don’t read it aloud with an ear to the music it contains. Poetry is music - augmented by the meaning of the words, yes, but the meaning alone falls flat. To hear recordings of someone else reading poetry, or hear such things at a poetry reading also falls flat for me: I have to read it aloud to bring it to life.

Get a copy of Robert Fagal’s translation of the Iliad, and read it aloud, and listen to the music as you do so. Or, to come back to Ginsberg, read Howl allowed and get into the rhythm and melody of the sounds. It comes alive. That’s why he’s great, IMO - he understood the music in the poetry.


48 posted on 05/30/2014 11:48:59 AM PDT by dagogo redux (A whiff of primitive spirits in the air, harbingers of an impending descent into the feral.)
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