Absolutely the best part of the high school poetry unit is having high school so far in your past that you can’t even recall its existence. In my experience, the vast majority of poetry is exemplified by its being more related to pottery.
I was asked and woke up with a start because I hadn’t done my Meh. yet. But then I realized that I did click the button.
But… maybe I do need to buy a crystal chandelier. It’s a great deal!!
Then I woke up to buy the chandelier, already regretting it, when I dropped my phone , which woke up my wife who sighed and whispered “good night,” which meant, " stop looking at your phone and go to sleep…(
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Somehow through, I wrote this comment
I was asleep and woke up with a start because I hadn’t done my Meh. yet. But then I realized that I did click the button.
But… maybe I do need to buy a crystal chandelier. It’s a great deal!!
Then I woke up to buy the chandelier, already regretting it, when I dropped my phone , which woke up my wife who sighed and whispered “good night,” which meant, " stop looking at your phone and go to sleep…"
@norb
A something a something Nantucket
A something a something a bucket
A something a something
A something a something
A something a something they stuck it.
@DrWorm I’m glad to hear that since I was trying to figure out what a poetry unit could be. My mental image was something like: a small squad of Ninjas that would infiltrate a classroom, capture the students and force them to listen to poetry readings. If they were really sadistic, it would be Vogon poetry.
@2many2no Nice to see there’s at least one other person here who doesn’t think poetry is just “haiku” (in quotes because 5-7-5 isn’t really all there is to it) and limericks!
@2many2no@Kyeh
I guess I was something of a Romantic back in my days of high school (more than half a century ago), but I was enthralled by several of Dylan Thomas’ poems in our literature reader.
He just had such a way of both painting pictures and making music with words!
So much so especially by the poem Fern Hill that I immediately set about memorizing it completely, though most of it I’ve forgotten by now. But I did still instantly recognize it quoted above. I loved reciting it out loud, though I could never do it the justice of the poet himself:
And so much so that when a production of his “Under Milk Wood” play was put on by a drama class at the University of Dallas a few years later, I had to go. Though I was far from being a literary critic and despite not knowing a lot of the vocabulary and idioms of Wales used in the play, I thoroughly enjoyed that night. I recommend that anyone appreciating Thomas’ poetry but not familiar with that play should experience it.
A small excerpt, just over 6 minutes, featuring three players including the then Prince Charles as a BBC radio play, is available at
The film version, with stars Sir Richard Burton (no Elizabeth Taylor) and Peter O’Toole is available at . (Just under an hour and a half.)
I suggest anyone interested in either of those productions should prep a little bit beforehand with the background of the play’s story. See, e.g., https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Under_Milk_Wood
There once was a man from Nantucket…
@shahnm … and he did something with a bucket?
@phendrick @shahnm
Technically a limerick is a form of cinquain…
Fast Server, Fast Server, Wherefore art thou Fast Server?
Shakespeare, because he had a line about killing all the lawyers – still appropriate, IMO.
"All that glisters is not gold—
…
Gilded tombs do IRKs enfold.
I must have been absent when we were supposed to learn cinquains. Heck, spell check doesn’t even recognize the word.
@fredmavis
(See above)
Absolutely the best part of the high school poetry unit is having high school so far in your past that you can’t even recall its existence. In my experience, the vast majority of poetry is exemplified by its being more related to pottery.
@werehatrack
I dunno… Still have fond memories of some of Rod McKuen’s works.
Dylan Thomas.
Also W. B. Yeats.
Quoth the raven, “Nevermore”
Best poem ever.
@tweezak I dunno, Psalm 23 has a good chance in the running…
@Weboh I stand corrected.
I was asked and woke up with a start because I hadn’t done my Meh. yet. But then I realized that I did click the button.
But… maybe I do need to buy a crystal chandelier. It’s a great deal!!
Then I woke up to buy the chandelier, already regretting it, when I dropped my phone , which woke up my wife who sighed and whispered “good night,” which meant, " stop looking at your phone and go to sleep…(
.
Somehow through, I wrote this comment
@00 You bought a crystal chandelier?
Dang, I missed that deal!
@Kyeh It was all just a dream!
I meant to say…
I was asleep and woke up with a start because I hadn’t done my Meh. yet. But then I realized that I did click the button.
But… maybe I do need to buy a crystal chandelier. It’s a great deal!!
Then I woke up to buy the chandelier, already regretting it, when I dropped my phone , which woke up my wife who sighed and whispered “good night,” which meant, " stop looking at your phone and go to sleep…"
Somehow though, I wrote this comment
@00
Yes, I figured it was, but it sounded like a much more exciting deal than the real item on offer today!
The best poetry unit is no unit at all.
High school poetry
Memories fade like dried grass
So much for my brain
There once was a man from Nantucket, who so hated high school poetry that he wrote…
@norb
A something a something Nantucket
A something a something a bucket
A something a something
A something a something
A something a something they stuck it.
Was it the haikus?
One certainly would think so
But who really knows?
Writing a paper on the works of Robert W. Service.
I am almost positive that my high school did not have a poetry unit.
@DrWorm I’m glad to hear that since I was trying to figure out what a poetry unit could be. My mental image was something like: a small squad of Ninjas that would infiltrate a classroom, capture the students and force them to listen to poetry readings. If they were really sadistic, it would be Vogon poetry.
@DrWorm @rockblossom Sign me up for that Ninja poetry unit!
Ferlinghetti, cummings, and Dylan (both)
…although none of them showed up in high school
@2many2no
You don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows
@2many2no
what wonderful thing is the end of a string…
and will somebody tell me why people let go.
@2many2no
across that small gulf
in the high seas
of this democracy
@2many2no Nice to see there’s at least one other person here who doesn’t think poetry is just “haiku” (in quotes because 5-7-5 isn’t really all there is to it) and limericks!
@2many2no
Hearing it in a recording by Thomas himself is magical…
Oh as I was young and easy in the mercy of his means,
Time held me green and dying
Though I sang in my chains like the sea.
@2many2no @Kyeh
I guess I was something of a Romantic back in my days of high school (more than half a century ago), but I was enthralled by several of Dylan Thomas’ poems in our literature reader.
He just had such a way of both painting pictures and making music with words!
So much so especially by the poem Fern Hill that I immediately set about memorizing it completely, though most of it I’ve forgotten by now. But I did still instantly recognize it quoted above. I loved reciting it out loud, though I could never do it the justice of the poet himself:
And so much so that when a production of his “Under Milk Wood” play was put on by a drama class at the University of Dallas a few years later, I had to go. Though I was far from being a literary critic and despite not knowing a lot of the vocabulary and idioms of Wales used in the play, I thoroughly enjoyed that night. I recommend that anyone appreciating Thomas’ poetry but not familiar with that play should experience it.
A small excerpt, just over 6 minutes, featuring three players including the then Prince Charles as a BBC radio play, is available at
The film version, with stars Sir Richard Burton (no Elizabeth Taylor) and Peter O’Toole is available at . (Just under an hour and a half.)
I suggest anyone interested in either of those productions should prep a little bit beforehand with the background of the play’s story. See, e.g., https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Under_Milk_Wood
@2many2no @Kyeh RETRACTION.
Elizabeth Taylor IS in the film!
The high school what?