tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post4458656492045906778..comments2024-01-28T03:56:39.351-08:00Comments on TOM CLARK: Thoughtful Buster / Poor Clarence / one more saturday night (As seen from afar) / Hardy: Three PoemsUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-34611731660140936842017-12-30T13:12:25.952-08:002017-12-30T13:12:25.952-08:00Thanks Stuart. At about that hour, same always wor...Thanks Stuart. At about that hour, same always works for me too. <br /><br />Happy new year to you.TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-34494371799908539722017-12-30T00:49:08.016-08:002017-12-30T00:49:08.016-08:00Buster Keaton. Tom Raworth.
Saved me at 3:48 a.m....Buster Keaton. Tom Raworth.<br /><br />Saved me at 3:48 a.m.<br /><br />Thanks!Stuart Rosshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08548545554609320939noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-22403026076152863782017-12-19T09:12:07.945-08:002017-12-19T09:12:07.945-08:00¡Y los más cálidos deseos de nosotros para ti, San...¡Y los más cálidos deseos de nosotros para ti, Sandra!TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-88296476725946842452017-12-19T06:10:24.656-08:002017-12-19T06:10:24.656-08:00me encantó este post....feliz Navidad Tom y los me...me encantó este post....feliz Navidad Tom y los mejores deseos para ti y familia!Sandrahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15053707892868584990noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-15700858758985296792017-12-19T06:07:37.805-08:002017-12-19T06:07:37.805-08:00(You can tell by his expression that Buster unders...(You can tell by his expression that Buster understands all this and will go on trying to get along - bad as it is, he's still in the game - but Poor Clarence - well not so much with the joy of the rain-puddled red wheel barrow, any more, for him.) TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-4306293034505588362017-12-19T06:03:44.865-08:002017-12-19T06:03:44.865-08:00"Uh, wait, I'm a snail, and I only want t...<br /><br /> "Uh, wait, I'm a snail, and I only want to read about a world in which snails matter."<br /><br /> "But maybe... 2000 years ago... snails mattered."<br /><br /> "So why aren't there more poems about them then?"<br /><br /> "How do you know there aren't?"<br /><br /> "OK, but I'm a Mistle Thrush, then, and I know what I like."<br /><br /> 19 December 2017 at 06:02 DeleteTChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-53699186047538916642017-12-19T05:43:45.370-08:002017-12-19T05:43:45.370-08:00OK, I guess this would be the damning admission:
...OK, I guess this would be the damning admission: <br /><br />"What made poetry 2000 years ago makes poetry now."<br /><br />Of course one can't reasonably agree (or disagree) with that if one hasn't read anything writ more than 20 minutes ago.<br /><br />("Reasonably" -- um, did he really dare to say that?)TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-19957364296616205572017-12-19T05:08:40.632-08:002017-12-19T05:08:40.632-08:00Thanks, Hilton - agreed on all counts.
I get two ...Thanks, Hilton - agreed on all counts.<br /><br />I get two things from posting a bit of Hardy these past few days:<br /><br />1. No one reads Hardy any more, because no one has ever told them to bother.<br /><br />2. Those who however belatedly and grudgingly do bother to look, despite implicit proscriptions, are nicely surprised to learn that he is the very truest among the modern poets, and just keeps getting truer with the awful piling up of the false and lying years (which, of course, his poems unhappily anticipate - one of the major reasons no one reads him any more).<br /><br />But poetry is dead and lazy attitudes live on, flourishing with peculiar vigour in the hothouse environment ("safe space") of the schools, where of course Hardy is not taught or even mentioned... with the backwards positive effect that anything not mentioned in today's curricula remains relatively uncontaminated... for at least a few minutes longer.<br /><br />On Hardy:<br /><br />Ezra Pound (1938):<br /><br />"No man can read Hardy's poems collected but that his own life, and forgotten moments of it, will come back to him, a flash here and an hour there. Have you a better test of true poetry?...<br /><br />"There is a flood of life caught in this crystal."<br />___<br /><br />Some notes & remarks on poetry & life by TH:<br /><br />"What made poetry 2000 years ago makes poetry now."<br /><br />"The value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it."<br />___<br /><br />W. H. Hudson (1840-1922): from Nature in Downland (1900), on the Mistle Thrush:<br /><br />"Mid-winter is the season of the missel-thrush... when there is no gleam of light anywhere and no change in that darkness of immense ever-moving cloud above; and the south-west raves all day and all night, and day after day, then the storm-cock sings his loudest from a tree-top and has no rival. A glorious bird!... You must believe that this dark aspect of things delights him; that his pleasure in life, expressed with such sounds and in such circumstances, must greatly exceed in degree the contentment and bliss that is ours, even when we are most free from pain and care, and our whole beings most perfectly in tune with nature... The sound is beautiful in quality, but the singer has no art, and flings his notes out anyhow; the song is an outburst, a cry of happiness."TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-87686368635851284092017-12-18T18:53:20.817-08:002017-12-18T18:53:20.817-08:00Hardy is stunning, fresh, aliveHardy is stunning, fresh, aliveHiltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04497545378045907642noreply@blogger.com