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Emily Dickenson's rose

13 Jun 00 - 12:17 PM (#241976)
Subject: Emily Dickenson's rose
From: L R Mole

Most English teachers know that a great number of Emily Dickenson's poems can be sung to "The Yellow Rose of Texas",(Because I could not stop for death, death kindly stopped for me...), as can "Casey at the Bat", "Old Ironsides",etc. Also, a quick way to check haiku of the traditional 5-7-5 syllable type is to see if it can be sung to the first three lines of "Moonlight in Vermont". Less well known, though, is that "Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening" goes perfectly to "Hernando's Hideaway" (Whoooooo's woods/these are/I think I know....") I Imagine the first phenomenon goes back to some hymn meter, Dickenson's bio being what it was, but anyway, does anyone know other odd confluences like this?


13 Jun 00 - 01:50 PM (#242001)
Subject: RE: Emily Dickenson's rose
From: MAG (inactive)

Peter Schckele just did "Stopping by the Woods on..." to the tango "Hernando's Hideaway on his radio show. There are a few standards, based on meter.


13 Jun 00 - 05:02 PM (#242060)
Subject: RE: Emily Dickenson's rose
From: GUEST,Mrbisok@aol

Arghhh, this is killing me. The almighty Emily Dickinson, called by someone (not lowly me) "the greatest female poet in the English language,"now the subject of ridicule. Let satarists like Wierd Al and Stan Freberg send up the foolishness of the pop culture. But what's the point of trivilizing the giants?


13 Jun 00 - 05:56 PM (#242072)
Subject: RE: Emily Dickenson's rose
From: GUEST,me

...smiles...

it dropped so low in my regard i heard it hit the ground, and go to pieces on the stones at the bottom of my mind; yet blamed the fate that fractured, less than i reviled myself for entertaining plated wares upon my silver shelf.

and a close second is teasdale

peace upon thee


14 Jun 00 - 04:02 PM (#242445)
Subject: RE: Emily Dickenson's rose
From: GUEST,me


14 Jun 00 - 04:05 PM (#242447)
Subject: RE: Emily Dickenson's rose
From: GUEST,me

oops
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that half worked, i think


15 Jun 00 - 10:39 AM (#242811)
Subject: RE: Emily Dickenson's rose
From: L R Mole

Addenda: just remembered a dear colleague, now gone, who used to fit a lot of Emily D. to "Amazing Grace", as well.But boy, is it slooow. "The Walrus and the Carpenter" works, though; better to the Rose than the Grace.