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Poetry Appreciation Discussion - June 2024 (Patreon)

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Dear Book Club Readers ---

Your appreciation of great poetry in May was phenomenal, and it would be lovely to hear about the poems you're enjoying this month.

Our poetry appreciation thread is the place to mindfully check in and share what poetic works have resonated with us recently. So let us know:

What poems are you appreciating at the moment?

Let us know anything that has resonated with you during your poetic excursions:

  • Resonant lines

  • Striking imagery

  • Sublime musicality

  • Intriguing allusions

  • Compelling themes

  • Your favourite poets

  • Powerful metaphors

  • Elements you want to examine

  • Poems you want to recommend

  • Reflections, musings, and insights

  • Passages you're learning by heart

This is the place to put your poetry appreciations and get other readers weighing in on your thoughts!

Curated Poetic Vintages:

Your responses to our last three poems were beautiful. It was exciting to see the different links you discovered. And you can see the poetic connection I had in mind, along with my appreciation, in the downloadable PDF at the bottom of this post.

I have also specially curated three more poems for you to enjoy. There is another link running through these poems. It could be thematic, stylistic, or philosophical. You don't need an in-depth knowledge of poetry to uncover the connection. You only need to read, reread, and feel.

I would love to know what you make of the chosen poems. Which one is your favourite? Which poet resonates with you the most? And what lines stand out to you?

I will reveal the link running through them in the next poetry thread, along with the next three poetic vintages. And all poems can be found in the Norton Anthology of Poetry, which makes an excellent poetic textbook.

Thank you so much for sharing your love of great literature with us.

Happy reading, everybody!

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Jane
>>141004817

I just read the article it’s really thought provoking

Jessica

Thank you, Benjamin, for sharing about your own Grandmother. She sounds like such a special woman. Your reflections reminded me of my two Grandmothers, both who I adored. I miss them every day but am so grateful for the memories we shared together. There is something transcendant about familial love. My own two powerful Matriarchs still influence my life today.

Emma S.

I'm just back from Stratford upon Avon, so of course am very much immersed in Shakespeare right now. We were lucky enough to walk through the gardens at Anne Hathaway's cottage, Shakespeare's birthplace and his new place! Despite the forecast for rain and storms, we had beautiful sunshine and blue skies. The gardens were magical - full of gorgeous flowers, with a few hidden gems to be found. Sculptures and statues and wild banks... I felt so inspired to return to some of my favourite passages from Shakespeare. So on this beautiful June day, and as we approach the longest day of the year, I thought I'd share a poem of sorts from A Midsummer Night's Dream 🧚‍♂️. Over hill, over dale, Thorough bush, thorough brier, Over park, over pale, Thorough flood, thorough fire, I do wander every where, Swifter than the moon's sphere; And I serve the fairy queen, To dew her orbs upon the green: The cowslips tall her pensioners be; In their gold coats spots you see; Those be rubies, fairy favours, In those freckles live their savours: I must go seek some dew-drops here And hang a pearl in every cowslip's ear. Farewell, thou lob of spirits: I'll be gone; Our queen and all her elves come here anon.

Caroline P
>>141067892

A Lovely bit of Shakespeare poetry Emma. Reading that brightened my morning :-) I love going to Stratford upon Avon. Just walking in the RSC theatre always makes me feel humbled too.. by all the wonderful actors/actresses who have played there and the way lines like the poem you have posted seem to have become part of the building.

Terri Matter

In honor of the upcoming American contemplation of Juneteenth, I recommend the poetry of Robert Hayden. I just ran across his tremendously powerful poem “Middle Passage”, an historical epic poem that tells of the voyages of the slave trade. “Jesus, Estrella, Esperanza, Mercy: Sails flashing to the wind like weapons, sharks following the moans the fever and the dying; Horror the corposant and compass rose. Middle passage: voyage through death to life upon these shores. …”

Mike

Dulce et Decorum Est BY WILFRED OWEN may be the most haunting poem I’ve ever read. It conveys the horror of WWI like nothing else I’ve read.

nicole gravel

first time I learned of Owen was at a concert: Britten's War Requiem. Unforgettable.

Vasili Mici

“Hope” is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul - And sings the tune without the words- and never stops - at all -Emily Dickinson https://www.amazon.com/feathers-Dickinson-Inspirational-Poster-Vintage/dp/B0B5F6RLFZ/ref=asc_df_B0B5F6RLFZ/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=693308331004&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=5355031819682391440&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=m&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9002167&hvtargid=pla-2268047147725&psc=1&mcid=2a54c4553d7f3b51a5d0bf11d65d26be&gad_source=1#immersive-view_1718846617990

Anna
>>141323681

The beginning to one of my favorite Emily Dickinson poems. Thank you, Vasili.

Deborah Norwod

I’ve never been a big poetry fan… but I want to thank you for encouraging me to try again. While I was looking through my own books, I found a 100 year old book of poetry that my grandmother gave me when I was younger. She has penciled in comments on her favorites, and I’m really enjoying reading and ‘visiting’ with my grandmother again. What a treat for me…she’s been gone for over 40 years, and I miss her terribly. She was a big literature lover, like me…like us…and at one point in her life she was an English literature teacher. She would ave loved our group here…as do I. One of her favorites is this… “Wisdom” When I have ceased to break my wings Against the faultiness of things, And learned that compromises wait Behind each hardly opened gate, When I can look Life in the eyes, Grown calm and very coldly wise, Life will have given me the Truth, And taken in exchange - my youth.

Deborah Norwod

The 3 poems you offered remind me of boys I knew who went to Vietnam and if they came back, they were forever changed, and not for the better. I realize these poems refer to older wars…but War is Hell, no matter when and no matter how fired up the young soldiers may have been when they started off. Reality breaks the dream of honor and righteousness, and instead the brutality of war mentally destroys many soldiers…and their lives have lost what they might have been. My stepfather fought in Korea, and he was a mess. He never recovered. PTSD is at least recognized now…but it’s not enough to restore these young men to what they were before. Many come back empty shells. How do leaders sleep at night, after ordering young men to kill?

Kathy

I just got "The Norton Anthology of Poetry" Fifth Edition inspired by Benjamin and am anxious to dive in. I reviewed his video on poetry appreciation and will use those as my guides although I would appreciate more lengthy lectures on poetry and its comprehension. M favorite has always been Tennyson's "The Lady of Shalott" but a more detailed explication of poetry's language and its meaning is really needed.