tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post4630842801864776043..comments2024-01-28T03:56:39.351-08:00Comments on TOM CLARK: William Dunbar: Lament, When He Was SeikUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-90632012148469967852012-03-14T14:13:13.053-07:002012-03-14T14:13:13.053-07:00Steve,
All I can say is
also more than that in s...Steve,<br /><br />All I can say is<br /><br />also more than that in some<br />way, so being appears<br /><br />all wet!<br /><br />(Splash, glug...)TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-11356917101157714542012-03-14T08:08:21.232-07:002012-03-14T08:08:21.232-07:00Tom,
That rain bus has stalled here too -- 36 hou...Tom,<br /><br />That rain bus has stalled here too -- 36 hours and still counting, its motor still running -- I guess we should be grateful, but look out for those cars! <br /><br />3.14<br /><br />grey white rain cloud against invisible<br />plane of ridge, drops falling on bricks<br />in foreground, sound of wave in channel<br /><br /> also more than that in some<br /> way, so being appears<br /><br /> subject, is everywhere what<br /> it is, as in doing so<br /><br />grey of clouds against invisible ridge,<br />drops splashing into windblown channelSTEPHEN RATCLIFFEhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12339481653546188412noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-79374362944103523152012-03-14T02:12:33.544-07:002012-03-14T02:12:33.544-07:00Thank you for the good knowledge dal. In fact I ha...Thank you for the good knowledge dal. In fact I had thought to quip, "didna ken," but that would have been wrong too.<br /><br />Though mortality always comes knocking on the door during a middle-of-the-night monsoon here in Orkney, there is always a speck of hope that a soaking rain will stay the Reaper till there's been a chance to make amends.<br /><br />Your helpful correction therefore will not go unremembered, albeit quietly as befits a boneyard, at least in the captioning of the top illustration <a href="http://tomclarkblog.blogspot.com/2012/03/john-forbes-death-ode.html" rel="nofollow">here</a>.TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-22813599560158928292012-03-13T16:35:52.774-07:002012-03-13T16:35:52.774-07:00Tom Dinna ken or sometimes dinnae ken (pronoun...Tom Dinna ken or sometimes dinnae ken (pronounced dinnay) would be first person singular or plural Third person would be didnae (where i hail from) past tense or disnae present tenseAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-22542616775877429662012-03-13T12:37:21.174-07:002012-03-13T12:37:21.174-07:00Terry, no, it doesn't.
(Though we bloody well...Terry, no, it doesn't.<br /><br />(Though we bloody well do.)<br /><br />Tom,<br /><br />Always lovely to have a detective in the castle.TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-92178792542555783772012-03-13T12:27:56.998-07:002012-03-13T12:27:56.998-07:00That grey rain cloud, Steve, has now parked its bu...That grey rain cloud, Steve, has now parked its bus above us. <br /><br />While I was posting this, two commuter cars collided in the rush hour downpour out front, with an impact shudder rocking the walls of the haunted house as though they were the hull of a sub taking a depth charge. I thought, Timor bloody mortis. The cats thought, Oh no, another bloody quake. <br /><br />Then came the emergency vehicles. <br /><br />William Dunbar's poem is writ in Middle Scots, the Anglic language of Lowland Scotland.<br /><br />Its subcultural reverberations have extended into areas WD dinna ken. <br /><br />E.g.:<br /><br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3thrLP_0WVA" rel="nofollow">Conviction 666: The Amaranth Effect</a>TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-73437837725452789482012-03-13T11:49:25.912-07:002012-03-13T11:49:25.912-07:00That he was a Scot might be a clueThat he was a Scot might be a clueTom Raworthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01917743465756906412noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-41442786624744946742012-03-13T11:37:55.622-07:002012-03-13T11:37:55.622-07:00Bruegel is so vividly astounding; his work doesn&#...Bruegel is so vividly astounding; his work doesn't age. And Dunbar's poem, which I haven't read in many decades, is so immediate and direct. His diction is close enough to noble Chaucer's to be readily readable. Thanks for posting this perfect combination.tpwhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05909239000589253931noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-77634643236689360602012-03-13T11:33:04.398-07:002012-03-13T11:33:04.398-07:00Ah, I recognized most of the Middle English withou...Ah, I recognized most of the Middle English without glossary:must've been all the Chaucer I read back in the day.<br /><br />I wonder what dialect Dunbar's is: not the London dialect of Chaucer (I don't think)Conrad DiDiodatohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18312831623791642286noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-78205732167359407322012-03-13T11:09:12.612-07:002012-03-13T11:09:12.612-07:00Tom,
ThHe takis the campion in the stour,
The cap...Tom,<br /><br />ThHe takis the campion in the stour,<br />The capitane closit in the tour,<br />The lady in bour full of bewté;<br />...Timor mortis conturbat me.<br /><br />Such a great poem, and to see it "in the original" together with these "scenes" from the Brueghel -- once again, no one has ever thought to do THIS before, for which again all thanks.<br /><br />3.13<br /><br />grey rain cloud moving across invisible<br />ridge, song sparrow calling from branch<br />in foreground, sound of wave in channel<br /><br /> consciousness of object for<br /> example, “this” which<br /><br /> also forms itself, to which<br /> was added, each scene<br /><br />cloudless blue sky reflected in channel,<br />whiteness of gull flapping toward pointSTEPHEN RATCLIFFEhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12339481653546188412noreply@blogger.com