tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post7895364724191493005..comments2024-03-20T16:46:13.343-04:00Comments on Marly Youmans / The Palace at 2:00 a.m. / poems, stories, novels: Memory Palace, no. 3Marly Youmanshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02377938366750387442noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-17184141497293608122014-02-10T17:59:39.579-05:002014-02-10T17:59:39.579-05:00Hi R. T.--
Glad you haven't forsaken the inte...Hi R. T.--<br /><br />Glad you haven't forsaken the internet entirely. I shall go and see if you repented of abolishing the blog!<br /><br />I like the Petrarchan sonnet as well (and this one is definitely related to one of Petrarch's), though I tend to like all the variations. It's like "different flowers in odour and in hue," I guess. I like the terza rima sonnet, and all Marly Youmanshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02377938366750387442noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-34646935896546302692014-02-10T16:58:47.411-05:002014-02-10T16:58:47.411-05:00Shakespeare is a craft old fellow. We are so accus...Shakespeare is a craft old fellow. We are so accustomed to expecting the ever so subtle "turns" after each quatrain and the obvious "turn" (envoi) at the beginning of the couplet. My own preferences go to the Italian sonnet with the octave-sestet balance. And I really like the ways in which Hopkins uses and adapts the Petrarchan form. <br /><br />Now, of course, since you haveR.T.https://www.blogger.com/profile/13220814349193561823noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-4029503326390590782014-02-10T16:34:01.137-05:002014-02-10T16:34:01.137-05:00Yes, this one is extra-wriggly, I think.Yes, this one is extra-wriggly, I think.Marly Youmanshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02377938366750387442noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-87125880172435134212014-02-10T15:24:57.453-05:002014-02-10T15:24:57.453-05:00Perceptive remarks about the many turnings of way ...Perceptive remarks about the many turnings of way in this sonnet. They are, at their best, very flexible little boites.Robbi N.https://www.blogger.com/profile/04881145195435485238noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-56583725096429132062014-02-10T13:28:25.168-05:002014-02-10T13:28:25.168-05:00P. S. Yes, I know I just wriggled out of answering...P. S. Yes, I know I just wriggled out of answering! Of course! And changed the subject...Marly Youmanshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02377938366750387442noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-83751363911709131652014-02-10T12:53:26.276-05:002014-02-10T12:53:26.276-05:00Interesting. I'd say that a poet is a person w...Interesting. I'd say that a poet is a person who writes poems. Then the question becomes, "What is a poem?"Marly Youmanshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02377938366750387442noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-71664649840749911702014-02-10T11:16:36.252-05:002014-02-10T11:16:36.252-05:00At the risk of rushing in where angels might fear ...At the risk of rushing in where angels might fear to tread, my first response to the Philip Lee Williams quote, or perhaps more exactly the second point he makes about the 'huge percentage of people,' is "What is a poet?"<br /><br />If it were true that, for example, only musicians want to read about music, or only physicists want to read about physics, then it might be true Tomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09028121782477111901noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-58031284503641231112014-02-10T11:03:14.596-05:002014-02-10T11:03:14.596-05:00Hi Paul--
I think it will be finer too. One is al...Hi Paul--<br /><br />I think it will be finer too. One is always to some degree searching when reading from the page.<br /><br />Of course, not every poem is perfected, even when by a Shakespeare. Memorizing tests the weak joints and points.<br /><br />I hope that's so, but I imagine many people these days never encounter any.<br /><br />Still can't figure out why you were relegated to Marly Youmanshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02377938366750387442noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-30365128011129980582014-02-10T10:42:05.507-05:002014-02-10T10:42:05.507-05:00I believe that subtlety of pace and pause will be ...I believe that subtlety of pace and pause will be finer when the meaning of a line/poem becomes fused in one's memory than when read (slightly more dogmatically) line by line.<br /><br />A poem can wed itself to one's experience once memorized. I guess this is why 'awkwardness' in lines have to be worked on to be remembered.<br />One has to 'make something sensible' of Paul Digbynoreply@blogger.com