tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4821243838031243709.post5142510967046142569..comments2023-11-05T04:15:44.564-08:00Comments on Robert Frost's Banjo: “Easter 1916”Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15687192784861682991noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4821243838031243709.post-54626210657605071822009-04-28T19:55:00.000-07:002009-04-28T19:55:00.000-07:00Thanks Ashok:
I did read your essay, & liked ...Thanks Ashok:<br /><br />I did read your essay, & liked what you were doing there in terms of political realities. Glad you enjoyed this.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15687192784861682991noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4821243838031243709.post-51065605839015831352009-04-28T15:29:00.000-07:002009-04-28T15:29:00.000-07:00I just wandered on in, looking to see what people ...I just wandered on in, looking to see what people thought of Easter, 1916, and was really impressed by your astute comments on change/permanence and violence(stream)/stone. I think you're exactly right in emphasizing the thoughtfulness of the poem.<br /><br />I written a <A HREF="http://www.ashokkarra.com/2008/01/birth-of-a-nation-on-yeats-easter-1916/" REL="nofollow">commentary on Easter 1916</A> if you're interested, but the conciseness of your thoughts is to be envied..Ashokhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13888023208356336263noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4821243838031243709.post-48145462748327127122009-03-20T05:27:00.000-07:002009-03-20T05:27:00.000-07:00Total F: Sorry it took me so long to respond-- as ...Total F: Sorry it took me so long to respond-- as you may have seen I've been away in a strange land with no computers. Actually, the two poems I considered besides "Easter 1916" were "Fergus & the Druid" & "The Lake Isle of Innisfree"-- so you were even closer than you thought. I was close to choosing "The Lake Isle" because there's a recording of Yeats reading it which I'm sure must be on the 'net somewhere.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15687192784861682991noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4821243838031243709.post-68230211732320489012009-03-15T15:21:00.000-07:002009-03-15T15:21:00.000-07:00Dang! I guessed 'The lake isle of Innisfree' right...Dang! I guessed 'The lake isle of Innisfree' right poet, wrong poem.Close but no cigar!Totalfeckineejithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05352708391465031655noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4821243838031243709.post-78541811159117779452009-03-15T09:49:00.000-07:002009-03-15T09:49:00.000-07:00Thanks to you as well, Kat; yes, that's true a...Thanks to you as well, Kat; yes, that's true about the poem.<BR/><BR/>Unfortunately, I haven't seen those films, tho I'm aware of them & would like to.<BR/><BR/>Thanks again.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15687192784861682991noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4821243838031243709.post-43401750018295037792009-03-15T07:00:00.000-07:002009-03-15T07:00:00.000-07:00John, Thanks for such a great post. The first fo...John, Thanks for such a great post. The first four lines of the second verse always strike me - being female and having been in the company of such women - my dad's oldest sister, Mary, for one. That line about voices growing shrill - dead on!<BR/>The poem itself is a terrible beauty, is it not?<BR/><BR/>Have you seen these films: Bloody Sunday (dir. by Greengrass) and Four Days in July (dir. by Mike Leigh)? You really should.<BR/><BR/>KatKat Mortensenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16877694888419628533noreply@blogger.com