STYLETHREAD -- LET'S TALK SHOP!

jen · Kate Spade

What's you favorite poem?

bumblebee · Coach

my all-time fave is "the love song of j. alfred prufrock" by t.s. eliot. that would actually be full of symbolism (including a semi-misnomer type title) that you could write about.

theotherjess · Chanel

bumblebee wrote:

my all-time fave is "the love song of j. alfred prufrock" by t.s. eliot. that would actually be full of symbolism (including a semi-misnomer type title) that you could write about.

Yes! I read it last year and I loved it. So beautiful. I think I'm going to google it right now.

rosie_the_riveter · Gucci

I guess Shel Silverstein is out of the question? Tee Hee

halleybird · Hermes

I could NOT pick a favorite poem...that's like picking a favorite child.

I do love the Romantics, though -- Emily Dickinson's "Because I Could Not Stop for Death", Longfellow's "The Tide Rises, The Tide Falls", and "The Cross of Snow."

These last ones are modern, but would be easy: William Carlos Williams' "The Red Wheelbarrow" is full of symbolism. I think the titles are especially important in Roethke's "My Papa's Waltz", Joyce Kilmer's "To A Young Poet Who Killed Himself" and Edna St. Vincent Millay's "Apostrophe to a Man."

jen · Kate Spade

Ooo, Halleybird, I LOVE My Papa's Waltz. I actually just read it a couple weeks ago and discussed it in class. I actually picked the T.S. Elliot poem and I found a ton of info on it. If anyone (HB!) knows that poem and can point out some symbolism, that would be great.

So far, I'm picking up on a lot of alliteration, repitition of smoke, fog, etc. and the structure of the poem itself is really interesting, some of it is free verse, it's irregular when it is 'structured'. The speaker is full of indecisiveness and anxiety based on his apperence and speaking to women. There is also a blur in the tense-past, present, or future.

Ignore the misspelled words. I'm sure there are a ton of them...

Deuce · Dooney & Bourke

It is a bit dark but I believe it is called "daddy" by sylvia plath. I just really like the emotion in it.

On a lighter note there is one called "bells" cannot remember who it is by now but the whole poem is about the sound of bells, and it actually sounds like them when you read it.

erin · Chanel

daughter, by nicole blackman

Irene · Dooney & Bourke

The Raven, by Edgar Allen Poe

Seashells · Dooney & Bourke

This one is beautiful...

Edgar Allen Poe's A Dream with in a Dream

http://http://bau2.uibk.ac.at/sg/poe/works/poetry/dream_wi.html

Maddie · Coach

since feeling is first
who pays any attention
to the syntax of things
will never wholly kiss you;
wholly to be a fool
while Spring is in the world
my blood approves,
and kisses are a better fate
than wisdom
lady i swear by all flowers. Don't cry
-the best gesture of my brain is less than
your eyelids' flutter which says
we are for each other: then
laugh leaning back in my arms
for life's not a paragraph
And death i think is no parenthesis
-e. e. cummings

I'm such a sap. Also, i carry your heart.

blubirde · Chanel

jen wrote:

Ooo, Halleybird, I LOVE My Papa's Waltz. I actually just read it a couple weeks ago and discussed it in class. I actually picked the T.S. Elliot poem and I found a ton of info on it. If anyone (HB!) knows that poem and can point out some symbolism, that would be great. So far, I'm picking up on a lot of alliteration, repitition of smoke, fog, etc. and the structure of the poem itself is really interesting, some of it is free verse, it's irregular when it is 'structured'. The speaker is full of indecisiveness and anxiety based on his apperence and speaking to women. There is also a blur in the tense-past, present, or future. Ignore the misspelled words. I'm sure there are a ton of them...

I've analyzed Alfred so many times but somehow it's all escaping me right at this second (maybe because I'm not looking at the poem). I know the fog is a cat at one point - not too hard to figure out but that's always my favorite part, mainly because I have a thing for cats. I'll see if I can find it online and remember any of the trickier analyses.