let us not forget beauty

I was initially going to continue this blog to post further developments on my Transitional space project; but given the urgency of our fading poets corner, I think this venue will be better used for my neglected fellow poet-eers. So here it is, our long awaited blog. I presume later on the title and address name will change. But for now, because of our stubborn ambivalence, this will have to do. Besides, you boys know how much I like to recycle.

So here it is, our first post by yours truly. I thought it necessary to take up the first of the three favourite poems we choose this winter as the topic of discussion. For our next entry, let us share our critical and reflective readings of the poems, and express our personal invested meaning to our picks and each others. I think if we sample the work we find influential and inspiring, as a group, we come to understand each others writing better. I think it is good to start our criticism on our picks, so we can develop the comfort to be critical on each other writings.

I am excited at the potential of our little workshop. I have read both Justin’s and Peter’s poetry, and am pleased to work with such talented writers.

Annie.

Justin:

William Wordsworth: "Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of
Early Childhood"
>http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/ode-intimations-of-immortality-from-recollection/

Pablo Neruda: "Lost in the forest..." (similar theme)
http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/lost-in-the-forest/

Marge Piercy - "Barbie Doll"
>http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/barbie-doll/

Peter:

Song of Childhood by Peter Hendke

http://www.wim-wenders.com/movies/movies_spec/wingsofdesire/wod-song-of-childhood.htm

To Nobodaddy by William Blake

http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/to-nobodaddy/

The Hollow Men by TS Eliot

http://www.cs.umbc.edu/~evans/hollow.html

Annie:

“Love song of Alfred J Prufrock" By TS Eliot:
http://www.bartleby.com/198/1.html

"Preludes" By Eliot:
http://www.web-books.com/classics/poetry/anthology/Eliot/Preludes.htm

"Song for Naomi" By Irving Layton:

http://home.cogeco.ca/~rayser3/naomi.txt