tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29676463.post115231685552271429..comments2024-03-29T14:45:32.326+13:00Comments on The Imaginary Museum: Four Last SongsDr Jack Rosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01805945600952222957noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29676463.post-20295471036158417642009-03-08T22:47:00.000+13:002009-03-08T22:47:00.000+13:00Good poem Jack. Strange story of your find. Eliot ...Good poem Jack. Strange story of your find. Eliot has the "third person" in The Waste Land - the doomed quest caught th. imag. of a generation. Still keeps. Cptn. Scott a fool tho cf. Amundsen. Mawson & Shackleton: bit more nous.<BR/><BR/>But tragedy real. Snow and cold and death real. Out...<BR/><BR/>______________________________________<BR/><BR/>For the record there is a great short story by "Joyce Carol Oates" called 'Death and Transfiguration'...<BR/><BR/>The power, the suspense of it, is in what _doesn't_ happen!Richardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10272507198753290435noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29676463.post-1152407559119716682006-07-09T13:12:00.000+12:002006-07-09T13:12:00.000+12:00That's interesting about the humming... have you e...That's interesting about the humming... have you ever considered writing songs? An opera? I seem to recall a very musical verion of the Britney Suite... <BR/><BR/>Wish I could write songs, but I can't.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29676463.post-1152396232218294492006-07-09T10:03:00.000+12:002006-07-09T10:03:00.000+12:00The question about synaesthesia is an interesting ...The question about synaesthesia is an interesting one. I don't think I write to actual pieces of music anymore (I'm a bit afraid of being overwhelmed by it, actually) but my poems seem to be initially dictated as combinations of rhythm and pitch -- I can sort of hum them before I know which words go with which bits. Which is why I have to wait to hear them before any "writing" can begin.Dr Jack Rosshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01805945600952222957noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29676463.post-1152337101957693052006-07-08T17:38:00.000+12:002006-07-08T17:38:00.000+12:00Wow, I read that same Arvidson poem too - and I h...Wow, I read that same Arvidson poem too - and I had a completely different reaction to either of you!<BR/><BR/>I've never thought to associate the poem with the music at all, even though I must have heard the latter relatively often as a child (we had the Concert Programme on all the time). My favourite lieder was always the Erl King! Whereas the poem seemed to me to be about something different, some opaque journey or something - I remember it more like one would a film. <BR/><BR/>I like this poem that you posted. It too seems to have a sort of journeying quality about it. <BR/><BR/>Do you write a lot "to music" as it were? Do you experience music synaesthetically?<BR/><BR/>My mother told me as a child that in lieder, formally speaking one is not supposed to gesture - the emotion should be contained in the voice. I wonder what the poetic equivalent of that is - perhaps it's the form you use here?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com