06-05-2003, 03:51 PM
The first Cummings poem/cummingspoem I ever saw.
Brings back memory of seventh grade English class, wherein I first heard the poem whose name I can't remember. A verse of it went something like this:
{opening lines forgotten, something like run for your life or never ever something}
'On the Holy Sabbath
On the Peaceful Day'
Said the Huntsman
playing on his old bagpipe
Boring to death,
the pheasant and the snipe.
Our English teacher, once we had read through this and tried to sort it out, then played a recording of the poem being read aloud. The rhythm and emphasis completly changed the shape, meaning, and texture of the poem in a way that was not self evident on the printed page. I can still hear the reciter's voice. (NO, it's not the caffeine!) Thus began my fascination with poetry, though not any long study of it.
When I listen to Rap artists, I realize what they are trying to do. I just don't find the current style of rhythmic 'poetry' to be appealing to the ear. The Last Poets did it a long time ago, and did it better, for my money.
Quote:Buffalo Bill's
defunct
who used to
ride a watersmooth-silver
stallion
and break onetwothreefourfive pigeonsjustlikethat
Jesus
he was a handsome man
and what i want to know is
how do you like your blueeyed boy
Mister Death
Brings back memory of seventh grade English class, wherein I first heard the poem whose name I can't remember. A verse of it went something like this:
{opening lines forgotten, something like run for your life or never ever something}
'On the Holy Sabbath
On the Peaceful Day'
Said the Huntsman
playing on his old bagpipe
Boring to death,
the pheasant and the snipe.
Our English teacher, once we had read through this and tried to sort it out, then played a recording of the poem being read aloud. The rhythm and emphasis completly changed the shape, meaning, and texture of the poem in a way that was not self evident on the printed page. I can still hear the reciter's voice. (NO, it's not the caffeine!) Thus began my fascination with poetry, though not any long study of it.
When I listen to Rap artists, I realize what they are trying to do. I just don't find the current style of rhythmic 'poetry' to be appealing to the ear. The Last Poets did it a long time ago, and did it better, for my money.
Cry 'Havoc' and let slip the Men 'O War!
In War, the outcome is never final. --Carl von Clausewitz--
Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum
John 11:35 - consider why.
In Memory of Pete
In War, the outcome is never final. --Carl von Clausewitz--
Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum
John 11:35 - consider why.
In Memory of Pete