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Re: This parody ...
Contempo: ''Moan, moan on the Fray...'' So glad to see you have returned ... and with the Tuesday Parody, ''yet.'' Excellent news, this. ''signed,'' ton amie fidele And I should return some other way, amie? :) Sardonically yours, ;)wr ()()
Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on May 21, 2009
Re: ()() This parody almost makes itself...
denny: As a long time ENTP who finds himself drifting toward INTP - and further still toward INFP - I wonder if we are not all really two people - the facade which we show to the outside world and the truer self which exists only inside and which we somehow refuse to recognize. Yet with the years, we seem to put away the games and come to ...
Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on May 18, 2009
If I had words (sic) enough and time...
...man, what I could do to this week's poem. Seriously and humorously both. As it is, while I'm back home in Houston and find my apartment secure, the one thing I need above all -- my computer -- isn't working. Somehow, the system board decided to give out (apparently) when or after I unplugged the CPU and moved it off the floor. When I plugged ...
Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on September 25, 2008
"Tuesday Accident" (sorry, couldn't resist ;) )
Seriously, Laura Polley's poem has been parsed up, down and sideways and hardly needs more analysis by me. I did find it thought-provoking, though a tad obscure. I'm grateful that those with sharper intuitions for such things picked up on a few points that I found somewhat puzzling. The poem caused me to remember the time in my own childhood when ...
Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on September 11, 2008
Two insights
Thanks. It's nice to know that someone thinks that I have a leg up on the Tuesday Poem (which is a change for me). Besides the cinematic quality of the poem, there seems to be a decided and intentional contrast between the reactions of the poet and of his friend to the same circumstances. The two people seem to be exact opposites temperamentally, ...
Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on September 3, 2008
Re: WALKING IN FOG: stunning
Dear Ted, I think that the poet (or the narrator) is contrasting his own reactions to the physical circumstances to the quite different reactions of his friend. It is he who has the foreboding of the unknown and the uncertain, in facing his friend's impending death. It is she who embraces these things in facing her own impending death. I believe ...
Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on September 3, 2008
Re: pea soup
richard:Self consciously obscure. There are many interpretations of the last stanza which is a forced fit into the first two, primarily descriptive, stanzas. Fog, loom,owl are formula words that are supposed to evoke ominous allusionsIs the friend symbolically dying? Why is she wheeling? Who cares? When a poem can mean anything to anyone it means ...
Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on September 3, 2008
"Walking in Fog": free verse in motion
You've heard the phrase ''poetry in motion'' applied to many different things and people. ''Walking in Fog'' is free verse in motion in a sense. To me it is like a sequence filmed by a video camera in the poet's hand -- or (much more likely) in his mind. This may be no great insight, but the short-film character is one of the several gently ...
Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on September 3, 2008
Re: ambiguity
islandtime: I rarely listen to the poet read his/her poem, but today I wanted a clue, any clue, as to whether this poem was written from a standpoint of admiration or resignation for the rituals of Yom Kippur. Interestingly, part of what makes the tone ambiguous is the fact that the whole poem is written in a passive voice, which contributes ...
Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on August 29, 2008
"Yom Kippur" compared to two Psalms
This week seems to have been a busy one, with regard to the Tuesday Poem. The subject matter is a couple of months early, but then had it been posted ''in season'' I probably wouldn't have seen it. You see, if all goes well I will be in London, England on Yom Kippur -- or Yom Kippurim (יום כפורים), as the Hebrew Bible actually puts the term (as ...
Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on August 29, 2008

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