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Poetry Appreciation Discussion - January 2024 (Patreon)

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Dear Book Club Readers ---

Poetry is the crown jewel of imaginative literature. And great poems are more powerful when shared with fellow lovers of literature.

So it would be wonderful to hear what poetry you are enjoying alongside your other reading. Our poetry appreciation thread is a place to mindfully check in and share what poetic works have resonated with us recently.

The best way to appreciate poetry is to start immersing yourself in it and discussing your favourite lines with others. 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:

I have also specially curated three poems for you to enjoy. There is a link running through these poems for you to discover. The link could be thematic, stylistic, or philosophical. Indeed, it will be possible to see multiple connections.

You don't need an in-depth knowledge of poetry to uncover the connection. You only need to read, reread, and feel. And the more you read, the more you will discover.

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.

For more information on poetry appreciation, I've put together a PDF printable guide for you called 'How to Read Poetry,' which you can find at the bottom of the post. This guide outlines the things to keep in mind to get the most out of your poetry.

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

Happy reading, everybody!

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FrozenWaterfall

This is a note I found on my phone: We hug our friends. From beginning to end the taste of the bend Send it all ‘round. Forever it will lend my heart and non sense, to speak in a dialect from nonceptual love. Now on in I am to descend, into poetry? Or never sin. Let me flex the heart to like Ken. Do what you want, it is now, fortunately, upon the hour rend.

Terri Matter

Hi all. Just wanted to put a call out to club members to use these appreciation threads as an ongoing forum for sharing anything poetry related anytime. I will continue to check this and the short story thread as I do the literary quest back catalog thread . It is fantastic to have these more open-ended discussions alongside the specific current reading assignments.

Bill

In a previous entry, I mentioned that I am reading lots of poetry. I have so much to catch up on! The more I read, the more I love. The most satisfying thing is that as I read more, I have a sense of community building among my readings, even if the poems are from many different cultures and historical periods. I suffer from depression. Poetry is something that has helped so much. When I struggle with a poem, I can feel myself thinking. The concentration required is calming and nourishing. One poet I am currently reading is Jane Kenyon, a late 20th century American poet. I have already written enough in this post, but I will add a poem in my next entry.

Matthew McVittie

I have over the past few months been actively working on improving my handwriting and penmanship and copying out passages from books and poems is a great way to practice. I had some nice bits of writing paper with artwork on them and have been enjoying finding poems to match the art. One of the ones I did recently has been stuck in my head for some days now and I wanted to share it. To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, One clover, and a bee. And revery. The revery alone will do, If bees are few. It's by Emily Dickinson, she loved poems about bees and nature! While I have known of her I confess I've never read any of her poetry until now. I definitely will be reading more. I love the simplicity of this poem and the emotion it evokes, the dreamy imagery, and the sense of place. You can simply close your eyes and find yourself reclining in a peaceful, springtime meadow, surrounded by the gentle hum of life and nature, with soft white clouds drifting across the bright blue sky while the emerald leaves of grass play across your skin in the gentle breeze. Bliss.

Terri Matter
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“In the name of the Bee— And of the Butterfly— And of the Breeze—Amen!” (E.Dickinson) She can name that tune in 3 lines, Walt… 😂

Lora Mantelman

I somehow deep dived and found this wonderful article from The London Review of Books, August 2004, 'Thoughts on Late Style' by Edward Said. This led me to poetry by C.P. Cavafy, which has satisfied my need to find a voice for the later stages of life that I could relate to. For now I'm satisfied......

Angelina

I explored the suggested January poems. The Thought-Fox is genious. I have some of his poetry and will read a little more in February. I wonder why felines are often subjects of poetry? Tyger, Panther? I have started to print them out and collect them in a note book by subject. Let's see where that leads to. I will start a collection of symbols too. Then I have explored Wallace Stevens. I tripped over Carlos among the candles. If you don't know it, please read it. It fascinated me how lighting 1, 2, 3 candles can influence your mood, your spirit. Never observed that, but it is so true. Fascinating. I will explore the suggested reading for this month. And I need to make a start on more Coleridge and Wordsworth in February

Margie

I enjoyed all 3. What I got out of them is to give yourself over to nature especially in the dead of night.

Steven McVicar

I've read these few poems through several times each. All very good but The Thought Fox is absolute genius. That's one of the best attempts to capture consciousness on paper I've seen. It's right at the top of list of my favourites now.

Kelly R.

“The Snow man” is my favourite - no contest. In particular the closing lines, because you can think about them and roll them around for meaning quite a lot. “For the listener, who listens in the snow, And, nothing himself, beholds Nothing that is not there and the nothing that is.” One of the “nothing” is capitalized which suggests a proper noun - meaning the Nothing is actually dense enough to be heard as something. Sort of like the white snow in Thought Fox. Which I admit, I felt as though I was witness to a scene of literal fox hunting at the end. It’s abruptness left me unsettled - perhaps how he felt until the page was printed and no longer blank.