tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4821243838031243709.post1300184346681578207..comments2023-11-05T04:15:44.564-08:00Comments on Robert Frost's Banjo: “Tender Only to One”Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15687192784861682991noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4821243838031243709.post-48233093058419248632010-02-21T06:41:49.322-08:002010-02-21T06:41:49.322-08:00Hi Ginger: I thought you might like this one bette...Hi Ginger: I thought you might like this one better. Hope you're feeling better, too.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15687192784861682991noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4821243838031243709.post-1972602442050287392010-02-21T01:27:22.069-08:002010-02-21T01:27:22.069-08:00Not shocked.
I like poems about death.
In fact,...Not shocked. <br /><br />I like poems about death.<br /><br />In fact, this is the best of the Stevie Smith poems, so far.<br /><br />Still though, she's just too...(fever won't let me think of the right word for it)...<br /><br />'Exact'???<br /><br />I don't know. She reminds me of one of those older educated women who talk really slow, because they want to make sure you. hear. every. SINGLE. word. they. say. Just so you can be impressed by them, or enlightened? As if they hold the secrets, and they don't. <br /><br />...<br /><br />The second stanza has a nice flow to it -- "May think my love to blame" is lovely; I'll give her that. ;)Ginger Ingenuehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06904339551806493214noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4821243838031243709.post-67315291892904398082010-02-20T12:42:37.355-08:002010-02-20T12:42:37.355-08:00Hi L.D. & Meri
If you folks were looking for ...Hi L.D. & Meri<br /><br />If you folks were looking for Sepia Saturday, it's up now!<br /><br />L.D.: Yes, it's a deftly handled transition. Glad you liked it!<br /><br />Meri: You have a point; however, Smith, by her own admission, specifically saw death as a welcome release rather than as an inevitable fact.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15687192784861682991noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4821243838031243709.post-50568032324816710762010-02-20T10:53:26.173-08:002010-02-20T10:53:26.173-08:00It is a twist and a chilling one, though aren'...It is a twist and a chilling one, though aren't we all true to death in the end?Merihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07024443046207501650noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4821243838031243709.post-18176849603083998572010-02-20T08:06:07.687-08:002010-02-20T08:06:07.687-08:00It is a good poem. I is fascinating where she took...It is a good poem. I is fascinating where she took the verse from love to the reality of individual death.L. D. https://www.blogger.com/profile/02270923121962761209noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4821243838031243709.post-87869082147267504282010-02-20T05:55:21.786-08:002010-02-20T05:55:21.786-08:00Hi Kat & Karen: I do think that there is a &qu...Hi Kat & Karen: I do think that there is a "shock value" to the ending, & that it's intended as such. Because of this, I questioned whether I should give the ending away, but I finally decided to since I believe the poem is practically as effective even when you "know what's coming." Glad you both liked it!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15687192784861682991noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4821243838031243709.post-2265724640145232272010-02-20T04:41:36.552-08:002010-02-20T04:41:36.552-08:00I feel exactly as Kat does about this. Without you...I feel exactly as Kat does about this. Without your explanation, I'd have had no inkling this was about death. Those last lines startle and shake me out of comfort. What a poet!Karenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12003379181294550035noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4821243838031243709.post-60574382080671802672010-02-20T04:38:03.222-08:002010-02-20T04:38:03.222-08:00I think it's interesting that a person could r...I think it's interesting that a person could read this poem and be deluded the whole way through into taking it as a lovely, safe and gentle piece. This is my first time reading it and I found myself wondering, if I didn't have foreknowledge of her and her predisposition, would I get the whole "death" thing? For me, at least, until the very end I can stay comfortable with it, but once it is read in its entirety, it is most unsettling.<br /><br />KatKat Mortensenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16877694888419628533noreply@blogger.com