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I am attempting to remain off social media right this moment, however prior to now in occasions like these I’ve seen some superb poetry shared by associates. So: what’s your favourite poem (or poems)? What traces from poetry stay lease free in your head? Do you’ve gotten any poems memorized?
(We have talked about favourite songs earlier than, however not poetry!)
For my $.02, my favourite poems are longstanding ones, chosen years in the past. (Spoiler alert, they’re all a bit moody.)
As an entire I’ve carried these poems with me, and browse, and reread them — for many years, at this level — and it is fascinating each time. I nonetheless keep in mind how I felt once I learn them the primary time, however there have been layers of emotions and meanings added through the years. There’s numerous discourse over what the poems imply, in fact, and I am positive there is a “proper reply” on the market, however I are likely to let my moods information what the poems imply, and completely different traces within the poems will hit me in a different way through the years.
Prufrock is pretty Primary, I suppose — is it a Karen poem at this level? Hmmn. Do I dare to disturb the universe, certainly.
I memorized “anybody lived” for a school class and nonetheless learn about 80% of it by coronary heart. Once I was pregnant with my eldest son I used to say it out loud, to my stomach, on a regular basis — I am undecided why, to be trustworthy. Sooner or later shortly after his start, although, in these hazy days of latest motherhood, he wouldn’t cease crying, and I began reciting the poem… and he stopped crying. I prefer to assume he acknowledged it, and it calmed him.
45 Mercy Avenue I got here to by Peter Gabriel, who has a stunning, darkish, layered track known as “Mercy Avenue.” The primary time I purchased “good” audio system, this was the track I’d ask the BestBuy (or no matter) guys to play. The poem itself is not terribly cheery, and clearly Anne Sexton’s life was not a cheerful one. I am usually a cheerful particular person, however the “what can it matter” line principally lives lease free in my head.
Two extra random ideas on poetry: First, the e-book, Love That Canine, is a fully superb kids’s e-book in case you have a kiddo who does not like studying.
Second, I’ve at all times loved Lin-Manuel Miranda’s efficiency on the White Home Poetry Jam in 2009 — the efficiency is superb, in fact, however there’s additionally one thing… uplifting?… about the way in which everybody laughs at him when he begins describing what would turn out to be the musical “Hamilton;” many assume it’s a joke. My eldest son went by means of a giant Hamilton part, as so many youngsters do, and I’ve proven him that efficiency as proof that good concepts aren’t at all times acknowledged as sensible from the getgo, and you must persevere.
