tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post2850867184044053257..comments2024-01-28T03:56:39.351-08:00Comments on TOM CLARK: D. H. Lawrence: BatUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-55478857413124738962013-10-30T04:37:09.269-07:002013-10-30T04:37:09.269-07:00The swoop and dip of the dark bodies brings to min...The swoop and dip of the dark bodies brings to mind images of some unspecified tragedy -- the fallen angels, spiraling downward to darkness.<br /><br />Lawrence's ability to feel himself into another living thing is remarkable. It has nothing to do with sentimentality or warm fuzzy feelings. His concern is life, for better or worse. His shudder of revulsion is as intense in its way as an act of love.<br /><br /><a href="http://tomclarkblog.blogspot.com/2013/10/vulnerable.html" rel="nofollow">Vulnerable</a>TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-76667456306779301452013-10-29T14:00:08.148-07:002013-10-29T14:00:08.148-07:00Swallows with spools of dark thread sewing the sha...Swallows with spools of dark thread sewing the shadows together.<br /><br />The birds putting the backdrop together for the coming abject scene.<br /><br />That plain jutting out line about the Chinese symbol and then that last "Not for me!" - the Nottinghamshire voice must come through there.<br /><br />Mose23https://www.blogger.com/profile/01100756913131511440noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-54962644616273996432013-10-29T05:47:49.734-07:002013-10-29T05:47:49.734-07:00Thanks -- I needed this and it's wonderful -- ...Thanks -- I needed this and it's wonderful -- the poem, the Rexroth and, of course, the photos. Yesterday, while waiting for the person I was having lunch with, I pulled up my college newspaper on my "smartphone" and read about the appearance of "slam poet" Andrea Gibson, who had apparently just wowed the campus. I was surprised that the students were interested in attending a poetry reading, but then when I read selections of Ms. Gibson's "free verse," I was appalled, but my surprise vanished. Somewhere along the line, in college probably, I read a quotation from Plato that went something like "hard is the good" and, even based on the limited experience I had back then, I could accept that. I don't think I could ever have accepted the easy, vacant, profane complaints of Ms. Gibson's "poetry," but things seem to be different today than I previously imagined. I guess I'm out of touch. CurtisACravanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00315707533118640284noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-63015995096741758812013-10-29T04:40:14.029-07:002013-10-29T04:40:14.029-07:00Lawrence’s free verse in Birds, Beasts, and Flower...Lawrence’s free verse in Birds, Beasts, and Flowers is among the small best ever written. It can be analyzed, but the paradigms produced by the analysis are worthless. It cannot be explained away, demonstrated in a mathematical sense. Neither, certainly, can any other great poetry; but at least a convincing illusion can be created, and the young can be provided with something to practice. A poem like “Bat”... moves with a stately, gripping sonority through the most complex symphonic evolutions. The music is a pattern of vibration caught from the resonant tone of Lawrence himself. The concerto is not on the page, little spots with flags and tails on a stave, but the living thing, evolving from the flesh of the virtuoso. It is like Gregorian chant or Hindu music, one thing when sung at Solesmes, or in the ruins of Konarak, another when “rendered” by the Progressive Choral Group or at a concert of the Vedanta Society of Los Angeles.<br /><br />Kenneth Rexroth: from Poetry, Regeneration and D. H. Lawrence (1947)TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.com