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by Frank Daniel » Sat Mar 26, 2011 12:07 pm
Hey Glenny,
You should know better than to ask me for help.
I don't claim to be one capable of critiquing the work of others.
Either I like it or I don't.
I read and listen to bush poetry without commenting because the writer has done his or her best and, as in Lawson's case, has been accepted for what he has done.
I understand rhyme and metre and mostly get it right, although I often use sound rhymes if that's what they are called.
I would be the dunce in the class if I was asked to explain stressed and unstressed, anapest and all that other stuff, I just write what I think and feel. I'm not an educated poet, I write mainly for performance, and that is where I guess I shine most.
I never know what you're all talking about when it comes to all those fancy words.
With Henry's "It was somewhere in September, and the sun was going down" I'm sure he meant "anywhere in September" without stipulating that it was up at Bourke in September where I believe it really was, or anywhere else for that matter..
Sweeney, I believe was actually Lawson, seeing himself as a drunk (with a sensual mouth.
In all copies of Sweeney by Henry Lawson I find that he wrote 'Neath the public house veranda' but it was Slim Dusty who changed it to 'Underneath the pub veranda'.
Dunno where I'm going now. But I'm happy for a bloke that didn't get the yr. 12 thingo.
Joe