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03 Mar 05 - 05:26 PM (#1426285) Subject: BS: Why do we need poetry? From: skipy A bastard thread yes, but a serious one at the same time! Skipy whippy nippy! |
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03 Mar 05 - 05:43 PM (#1426308) Subject: RE: BS: Why do we need poetry? From: Teresa We need poetry, both good and bad, So the Vogons' existence would have had A place to fester and be counted, Or adams' plot would have ... dismounted ... Hmmm. Well, we do need poetry, just not that.. Or McGonnagal's. I mostly write non-rhyming type, as you can probably tell. :D Wondrous worlds of written word, Spilling and splashing in a feverish fervor Of literary lust! My humbel self, 1/1987 :) Teresa |
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03 Mar 05 - 06:09 PM (#1426330) Subject: RE: BS: Why do we need poetry? From: Amos We need poetry because it is one of the few things in existence that produces a frequency capable of touching the soul through its defenses without harming it. These few things -- love, music and good laughter being three others -- are all that keep us from suffoicating into black, lost cinders of hopeless apathy at the hands of an indifferent entropic universe. But with them, anything is possible. A |
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03 Mar 05 - 06:16 PM (#1426340) Subject: RE: BS: Why do we need poetry? From: Mr Red 'cos I can't spell poverty and that is a novelty. Yt worse because I'm useless at assonant paronomasia (and scansion for tha matter) but I can do poetry in mime.............. |
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03 Mar 05 - 06:53 PM (#1426370) Subject: RE: BS: Why do we need poetry? From: Micca They buried Edgar Allan on the lea, beneath a sapling for all to see and fom his dust made Poe a tree |
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03 Mar 05 - 07:36 PM (#1426379) Subject: RE: BS: Why do we need poetry? From: Mrrzy We don't, but we LIKE it. |
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03 Mar 05 - 08:17 PM (#1426403) Subject: RE: BS: Why do we need poetry? From: Teresa Amos, yes. Teresa |
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03 Mar 05 - 09:29 PM (#1426445) Subject: RE: BS: Why do we need poetry? From: Bee-dubya-ell We need poetry because words are the best thing the human race has ever come up with and poetry isn't just words. Poetry is words squared. |
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03 Mar 05 - 10:03 PM (#1426461) Subject: RE: BS: Why do we need poetry? From: John O'L Poetry is the music of words. We need it to give perspective to all the other rubbish we say and write. |
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04 Mar 05 - 04:34 PM (#1426849) Subject: RE: BS: Why do we need poetry? From: skipy Kipling / Bellamy, Thats why! Just one generation apart, if only they could have worked together! Skipy |
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04 Mar 05 - 09:10 PM (#1427015) Subject: RE: BS: Why do we need poetry? From: beardedbruce Poetry is Only the Evolution of Thoughts, Reading, in these words, Your own. |
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04 Mar 05 - 09:26 PM (#1427023) Subject: RE: BS: Why do we need poetry? From: Amos Nice turn, BB! A |
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05 Mar 05 - 06:18 PM (#1427611) Subject: RE: BS: Why do we need poetry? From: GUEST,Art Thieme Without poetry, there would only be a tune to our ballads and folksongs. Art Thieme |
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06 Mar 05 - 03:56 AM (#1427848) Subject: RE: BS: Why do we need poetry? From: beardedbruce from Rilke... poetry -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "For verses are not, as people imagine, simply feelings (those one has early enough), -they are experiences. For the sake of a single verse, one must see many cities, men and things, one must know the animals, one must feel how the birds fly and know the gesture with which the little flowers open in the morning." -Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Poetic power is great, strong as a primitive instinct; it has its own unyielding rhythms in itself and breaks out as out of mountains." -Letters to a Young Poet |
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06 Mar 05 - 04:36 AM (#1427861) Subject: RE: BS: Why do we need poetry? From: GUEST,Guest Pip Poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history. Aristotle 389-322 BC Music dwells in the soul, but a poem lives in the heart. Anon. |
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06 Mar 05 - 05:06 AM (#1427872) Subject: RE: BS: Why do we need poetry? From: Big Al Whittle why do dogs howl? Ezra Pound said that poetry is an equation for an emotion. Some peole (we call poets) have skill and inclination to find the words which summon up their emotions in others. The whole point is that our lives and our very existence is mysterious in its origin. Only people who will commit to religious and philosophical explanations of our existence find life a closed book with prosaic explanations for everything. I think it was Wallace Stevens who was asked what one of his poems was about was about, and he answered if I knew that I should not have needed to write it. there ia point at which mere prose and the procession of stated facts about our life doesn't tell our story and thats where the poetry comes in. In the poets words we find expression of the unique nature of being a human being, which is somehow recognisable. And we are not so lonely, not so much on our own. Less need to howl. Sometimes, like in Dylan Thomas, we just get swept waway by the exuberance and vitality of the minute he expresses. And its fun. all the best Big Al Whittle |
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06 Mar 05 - 11:45 AM (#1428100) Subject: RE: BS: Why do we need poetry? From: Amos Why do poets howl? A |
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06 Mar 05 - 03:41 PM (#1428260) Subject: RE: BS: Why do we need poetry? From: Big Al Whittle I saw the best minds of my generation....etc. |
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06 Mar 05 - 03:53 PM (#1428272) Subject: RE: BS: Why do we need poetry? From: Amos Yes, yes....? And the Tao that can be described Is not the Tao. And why do poets howl, their ball Shaking in the cold wind of indifferent And entropic rivers in the time-fold? Why do they not learn They need to adjust? |