tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11560235.post114868305447690268..comments2024-01-26T10:25:48.047-08:00Comments on shrimplate: Tristan und Isoldeshrimplatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08347542266047278227noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11560235.post-1149275841472852682006-06-02T12:17:00.000-07:002006-06-02T12:17:00.000-07:00Elizabeth, I didn't immediately recall the web-co...Elizabeth, I didn't immediately recall the web-con we had until you brought yp the Plath/Hughes bit.<BR/><BR/>I still like Hughes but I go back to Plath about ten times more often than I go to his work.<BR/><BR/>You mention <I>Winter Trees.</I> "By Candlelight" is one of may favorites from that. <BR/><BR/>I've always liked Plath's "baby poems," like "Child" (also from W.T.) and of course "You're" and the sweet "Nick and the Candlestick" in <I>Ariel.</I><BR/><BR/>Thanks for stopping by, dudette.shrimplatehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08347542266047278227noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11560235.post-1149249897419900842006-06-02T05:04:00.000-07:002006-06-02T05:04:00.000-07:00Oh- And Bill And Ted's Excellent Adventure! Good t...Oh- And Bill And Ted's Excellent Adventure! Good too! Lest I dwell on the hoity-toity! HALilyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16689786323490572915noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11560235.post-1149249805732691782006-06-02T05:03:00.000-07:002006-06-02T05:03:00.000-07:00Well sir, dare you juxtapose.I had to comment toda...Well sir, dare you juxtapose.<BR/><BR/>I had to comment today because oddly enough the first blog-conversation we ever had (At Consider the Boot, although it might have been called Lily then) was about Plath and Hughes and whether we should read Hughes. I beleive it was in my post about feminists and artistic boycotts. I like Hughes, and you seemed to feel that we should read him. <BR/><BR/>"Mad Girl's Love Song" remains one of my favorites. I know the Ariel poems have received the most acclaim, but every now and then I prefer 'Winter Trees' and some early work. I recall that I enjoyed your comments on both Plath and Hughes those many months ago.<BR/><BR/>As happens with cosmic synchronicity, I was also listening to Wagner a few days ago (but cannot claim to understand it). The mind fills in,tells the story, not as libretto but the story as I recall it. Tristan and Isolde's story is an interesting one. I wonder about your connections between love, madness, and the very necessary way that the inner mind must quiet against the backdrop of the everyday... the ordinary... the drive through.<BR/><BR/>Doesn't get much more ordinary than that.Lilyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16689786323490572915noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11560235.post-1149188428443503862006-06-01T12:00:00.000-07:002006-06-01T12:00:00.000-07:00There you have it, May, probably the neatest disti...There you have it, May, probably the neatest distinction between poetry and prose that I have ever read. <BR/><BR/>Even "what the writer has in mind" <I>doesn't really count</I> in poetry horseshoes. That's one of the things I have always appreciated about it.<BR/><BR/>Same thing goes for music, especially when there are no lyrics to provide aesthetic clues.<BR/><BR/>Sheesh, you're good, dudette. You be <I>sharp!</I>shrimplatehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08347542266047278227noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11560235.post-1149105852967718852006-05-31T13:04:00.000-07:002006-05-31T13:04:00.000-07:00well. i did think it meant that, but i didn't want...well. i did think it meant that, but i didn't want to assume. this is why poetry does not really get into me, i cannot totally grasp it, and it is so subjective. prose is so straightforward and clear, i just think everybody digs it, even if they don't care about it. poetry....well, you have to have passion for it before you totally sort of get it. but then, since it is so subjective, who knows what the writer has in mind really?<BR/><BR/>thanks for taking time to elaborate. appreciate it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11560235.post-1149049700151395012006-05-30T21:28:00.000-07:002006-05-30T21:28:00.000-07:00May, thanks for stopping by.Sometimes life just th...May, thanks for stopping by.<BR/><BR/>Sometimes life just throws different things at you, like death, love, family, poetry, and these all dance about without maybe seeming to "make sense" and most of the time I think "sense" doesn't "make any sense" anymore anyways.<BR/><BR/>But it's all gravy. Life is good.<BR/><BR/>Things that are unrelated, like Plath poetry and picking up kids from school and Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure, all jumbled together, remind me of *life* and this makes me happy.shrimplatehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08347542266047278227noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11560235.post-1148780159762166092006-05-27T18:35:00.000-07:002006-05-27T18:35:00.000-07:00man,this is deep stuff! for a simple minded woman ...man,this is deep stuff! for a simple minded woman like me, everything that makes sense in this post sounds terrific, but because i have very limited number of brain cells to digest it, i must confess i don't totally get it. explain in layman's term? please?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com