Day: October 23, 2018

Seven deadly tins

P10002611.Cadbury’s  chocolate biscuits  made with real butter
2 M and S Choc chip cookies or any other biscuits
3.Tinned marrowfat peas to  eat with fish and chips
4.  Earl Grey Tea
5.Fudge made with real cream
6.Harrogate toffee extracts teeth free of charge
7. Chocolate almonds

Mountain

We saw the view from Langdale to the sea
Windermere, a riddle ten miles long
Coniston a question of degree
Old Man standing like a  children’s song

The risky climb, the tough hand that saved me
The energy of youth and the unknown
The  boldest child, the future poetry
By the shape of hills ,I’m overthrown

The shock of beauty  and the cliffs of rock
The slope as sheer as  silk, the mirrored poem
The sturdy heart that startled with its knock
The  pensive soul that brought these wishes home

On the highest peak’s edge, we   lay down~
Closed our eyes to  hear the   sheep bells sound

Death of death of poetry

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“Poetry, then, appears to be:

  1. a vacuous synonym for excellence or unconsciousness. What else is common to the public perception of poetry?
  2. It is universally agreed that no one reads it.
  3. It is universally agreed that the nonreading of poetry is (a) contemporary and (b) progressive. From (a) it follows that sometime back (a wandering date, like “olden times” for a six-year-old) our ancestors read poems, and poets were rich and famous. From (b) it follows that every year fewer people read poems (or buy books or go to poetry readings) than the year before.
    Other pieces of common knowledge:
  4. Only poets read poetry.
  5. Poets themselves are to blame because “poetry has lost its audience.”
  6. Everybody today knows that poetry is “useless and completely out of date”—as Flaubert put it in Bouvard and Pécuchet a century ago.

For expansion on and repetition of these well-known facts, look in volumes of Time magazine, in Edmund Wilson’s “Is Verse a Dying Technique?,” in current newspapers everywhere, in interviews with publishers, in book reviews by poets, and in the August 1988 issue of Commentary, where the essayist Joseph Epstein assembled every cliché about poetry, common for two centuries, under the title “Who Killed Poetry?””