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Poetry Appreciation Discussion - February 2024 (Patreon)

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Dear Book Club Readers ---

Your appreciation of great poetry in January was incredible, 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 specially curated three more poems for you to enjoy. There is another link running through these poems for you to discover. It 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.

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

Happy reading, everybody!

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Callum Siddall

I have started reading the poetry of William Blake recently, and im enjoying Blake's rhyme scheme in his poems. My favourite is A Poison tree I was angry with my friend: I told my wrath,my wrath did end I was angry with my foe: I told it not,my wrath did grow And i watered it in fears Night and morning with my tears, And i sunned it with smiles And with soft deceit wiles And it grew both day and night, Till it bore an apple bright, And my foe beheld it shine, And he knew it was mine, And into my garden stole When the night has veiled the pole; In the morning,glad, i see My foe outstretched beneth the tree.

Mary Elkins

Although each speaker shows a bit of pushiness and seduction toward their specific mistress, I prefer Shakepeare's playful tone, & I like Marvell's use of time as an approach over Donne's "flea." Currently, I'm reading some Haiku and Senryu suggested to me. They are very different from the curated poems.

Tena Sue

I did read the three poems mentioned in Ben's post. I'm very new to reading poetry, so keep that in mind in my response. The Donne poem to me seemed like the person was jealous that a flea was sucking the blood of someone they themselves wanted to bed. With the references to blood and the word maiden, i am guessing a virgin is the focus of their attentions. On the Shakespeare poem, I couldn't tell whether he was lamenting that he didn't have a mistress. or if he was wishing his mistress was with him then. The Marvell poem was longer but it was someone pressuring a lady to stop flirting and move on to sleeping together because we don't have all the time in the world and her beauty would be wasted in the grave. I really did not connect emotionally with any of them, They all seemed to be from the point of view of someone who was wanting a relationship or maybe even just relations with a woman. They came off as a bit desperate to me in all the poems, and i find pressure and jealousy to be a turn off. Maybe i misunderstood them?

Theresa

"She wrote poems in secret. She wrote secrets in her poems and said she only felt communion sitting all alone. " Baraka Blue ( Muslim poet) I love this poem.

Linda Hall

Forgive me for my quirky sense of humor, but after I read the three poems, the Meat Loaf song "Paradise by the Dash Board Light" started playing in my head and has been my continual background music for the past 24 hours. (This often happens to me with musical associations.) The lyrics are too long to post here, but this a portion from the end of the song: I couldn't take it any longer Lord I was crazed And when the feeling came upon me Like a tidal wave I started swearing to my god and on my mother's grave That I would love you to the end of time I swore that I would love you to the end of time! So now I'm praying for the end of time To hurry up and arrive 'Cause if I gotta spend another minute with you I don't think that I can really survive I'll never break my promise or forget my vow But God only knows what I can do right now I'm praying for the end of time It's all that I can do Praying for the end of time, So I can end my time with you! Even if you aren't familiar with the song, you can guess the events that led up to this point. Times change, people don't.

Lynn Cohen
>>129840578

Meatloaf was (still is?) underrated. Bat out of hell has some good lyrics too.

Kelly R.

I only just read these three short poems and am in agreement with the majority I think, in that my least favourite was “The Flea,” and also that there was a double theme of desiring intimate encounters and life being short. That last part is true, but I wonder if the motivation for mixing the two ideas was a little underhanded.

Terri Matter

This morning during my poetry reading I ran across Browning’s “Childe Roland to the Dark Tower came” and was immediately swept away. Several hours later, here I am to direct others to this amazing poem if they have not previously encountered it. Certainly I had read it years ago (when reading Stephen King’s Dark Tower series), but had not fully appreciated the brilliance! And, I was delighted to find that Benjamin had delivered a previous lecture! https://www.patreon.com/posts/49497333?utm_campaign=postshare_fan

Tim Lovelace
>>130942890

I'm glad you've called attention to the wonderful "Childe Roland," and I'm gratified that you read my response to the poem. I've always felt like I posted that little essay into the void.

Bryant

I just finished Four Quartets by TS Eliot. He has one of my favorite lines in all poetry and it is from the Dry Salvages... it is this: "Fare forward, travellers! not escaping from the past into different lives, or into any future; You are not the same people who left that station or will arrive at any terminus." This also connected with someone I heard recently trying to describe something about existentialism, and the question posed was something like this... If I make a rendezvous with myself for some time in the future, when I get there, will it be the "I" that made the appointment? Or some other "I" created out of my consciousness?

Cherian Philipose

The Flea is a witty poem about the taking of virginity, a bit of a carpet diem poem, with images of a man and a woman being bitten by the same flea, and then, the woman swatting the flea. Who would have thought that a flea could be a promising subject for poetry.