Thoughts on poetry

[Bob Pacey]

See that's exactly what I meant by over thinking things, it could have been that he just made a boo boo ?


Bit like trying to analyse American Pie


Bob

[Glenny Palmer]

I got analysis paralysis analysing American Pie.....but I cracked it....it's about the crucifixion.

[Heather]

Yeats, make a boo boo? Me thinks not.

I think it's a beautiful piece of poetry - anyone to argue that it isn't poetry because it rhymes the same words? Dare ya!!!

[Bob Pacey]

Never said it was not poetry BUT

Why couldn't he make a mistake I assume he was human ???

I make quite a few ?

Robert

[Heather]

Particularly with question marks...

[Heather]

Debate doesn’t really change things. It gets you bogged in deeper. If you can address or reopen the subject with something new, something from a different angle, then there is some hope.... That’s something poetry can do for you, it can entrance you for a moment above the pool of your own consciousness and your own possibilities.
SEAMUS HEANEY, Paris Review, Fall 1997

[Vic Jefferies]

Sorry Glenny, only Don Mclean knows what all of the lyrics in American Pie mean and he still wont tell!

[Glenny Palmer]

Hellooo Vic. Yeah, well that's as much as my poor old brain cells could tease out...

[Heather]

No wonder poets sometimes have to seem So much more businesslike than businessmen.
Their wares are so much harder to get rid of.
ROBERT FROST, "New Hampshire"

[Neville Briggs]

Robert Frost was a very perceptive and articulate thinker on things poetical. And a wonderful, dare I say; bush poet.