Recent questions tagged poetry

Description : What is the origin of the word poem?

Last Answer : Latin and Greek read this Poe was a great writer, but a drunkard and druggie.

Description : Would you care to guess who wrote the following?

Last Answer : Joe Biden when he confused his Geritol with a bottle of wine?

Description : What image(s) come to mind when you read this poem?

Last Answer : A vacuum.

Description : Tell us about your "road not taken"?

Last Answer : It's a good question (which is why you've maybe received so many GQs and no answers yet) but looking back on my life it's clear that I mostly took the obvious road that had been laid out for me, ... don't think I would be better off having made that choice, though. It's not all about money for me.

Description : What is your interpretation of Stairway to Heaven?

Last Answer : I think…they were high.

Description : Trying to locate a poem online about two women having vastly different lives- help?

Last Answer : Will try

Description : What is your opinion on this poem? How can it be improved?

Last Answer : The first thing that jumped at me was the confusing vagueness of “their”. Everything screeches to a halt, while my mind sorts through the list of 5 or 6 things, any of which might be the object of “their”. Which is it? Then we can move on.

Description : Can anyone help me find the words to this ditty?

Last Answer : Is this it? Johnny was a chemist's son His head stuffed full of brains While Johnny's thoughts were rocket ships, Other kids' thoughts were trains Johnny's father noticed Johnny Seldom saw the light of ... ! Johnny was a chemist's son But Johnny is no more What Johnny thought was H2O Was H2SO4

Description : What is most likely to inspire you to write poetry?

Last Answer : Absolutely nothing would get me to write poetry. I have a more concrete, prose-based, rational view of communication, and serious poetry is (or can be) abstract, idiosyncratic, and unreachable. About ... ever written is off-color doggerel in honor of a birthday or a wedding or something similar.

Description : Have you heard Mary Oliver died?

Last Answer : This makes me sad. I think she was one of Gailcalled’s favorites.

Description : When do words turn into poetry?

Last Answer : When they flow like music.

Description : Meaning of this quote? "The fish trap exists because of the fish; once you’ve gotten the fish, you can forget the trap"?

Last Answer : What is done is done. Move on.

Description : I have two all-time favorite quotations. What are yours?

Last Answer : I hate to get into religion, but my two favorite quotes deal with Agnostics. Darwin said: The mystery of the origin of all things is insoluble by us, so I, for one, must be content to remain an ... to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know that which other men say they are sure of.

Description : What would you do and why in this scenario?

Last Answer : I think you might be able to do that tactfully and diplomatically if you can keep any personal opinions of the poetry itself out of the conversation. For example, you could ask, Who is your editor? ... someone to help put out the first edition. Most authors are blind to their own errors, after all.

Description : Can you express how you feel about Trump in verse?

Last Answer : No.

Description : I am looking for a ballad poem that is about 6 to 7 minutes long?

Last Answer : Try “The Highwayman” by Alfred Noyes (corrected by Jeruba.) Very rhythmic and a good story.

Description : Do you have a poem to share?

Last Answer : There was a young chaplain from Kings, Who talked about God and such things. But his real desire Was a boy in the choir, With a bottom like jelly on springs.

Description : A poem by an American poet that is about the American Dream?

Last Answer : Here’s one

Description : What are your thoughts on the short documentary Louis the Poet?

Last Answer : It isn’t on youtube. Where might one find it?

Description : What would this poem be about?

Last Answer : I think it’s sardonic. It sounds to me that the poet has been the victim of derisive laughter.

Description : How do I add topics to my profile? Everything I click simply says "Bummer, you haven't added any topics."?

Last Answer : Maybe you want to see this thread

Description : With what should I begin reading Sylvia Plath?

Last Answer : “The Bell Jar” if you want to learn about her; “Ariel” if you want to read her poetry.

Description : Shall we have a thread of short poems?

Last Answer : answer:Richard Lovelace was not just a poet, but a Royalist officer in the army of King Charles during the civil wars in England in the 1640s. He was captured, and was sent to Coventry, literally-that's ... freedom in my Love, And in my soul am free, Angels alone that soar above, Enjoy such Liberty

Description : To continue the appreciation party for our beloved friend, how about a round of favorite poems?

Last Answer : Poem in October read by Dylan Thomas himself.

Description : "Do not go gentle into that good night" Your thoughts?

Last Answer : Live life to its fullest. Die kicking and screaming. Drive it like you stole it.

Description : If they post memes like this, shouldn't they at least know the words?

Last Answer : answer:Yeah, it would help I suppose, although all thos bs things like that I usually ignore. Like when they show you a picture of something tragic, and then it goes on to say that if you don't ... , reminds me of chain letters. And I see people use the word meme for just about everything now haha.

Description : Can you translate this?

Last Answer : Those are the lyrics found on Kevin Federlines notebook.

Description : Can anyone recommend a book about William Butler Yeats?

Last Answer : I’m not familiar specifically with the volume on Yeats but I have found this series to be very well done. It looks like it is expensive to buy but you should be able to find it in a library fairly easily.

Description : Can ask-publicites write stories just like Dr. Seuss, or would that be like sticking my head in a noose?

Last Answer : answer:You can ask your dad, You can ask your mother You can ask anyone Who lives on ask-public. The pentameter is bad The rhyming even worse When you get silly poets Trying to write verse. We could go for stanzas, Trying to be witty But the product of our work Will turn out really shitty.

Description : Can you suggest a short, loving quote to be engraved on a money clip?

Last Answer : Lordy Lordy look who’s 40?! not.

Description : Who wrote "May you not chase the events of times past, nor vex over the future and what it may hold?"?

Last Answer : answer:May you not chase the events of times past, nor vex over the future and what it may hold. Tell her to find me an acre of land Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme Between the salt water and the sea strand Then she’ll be a true love of mine ~ Fleda Claes Johansson

Description : Shall we say goodbye to Peter Oakley aka geriatric1927?

Last Answer : I hadn’t heard of him until this question was posted, but it’s always sad to see someone go. I think I need to watch some of his videos.

Description : What are your favourite lines of unknown or obscure poetry?

Last Answer : answer:It’s impossible to tell what might be considered obscure by others but one of my favorite not very famous lines is: “And I walked abroad in a shower of all my days.” From “Poem in October” by Dylan Thomas

Description : Any suggestions for a memorial scroll (details inside)?

Last Answer : Maybe this site will give you some ideas.

Description : What is your favorite snippet, quote, fragment, or poem by Rumi?

Last Answer : “That hurt we embrace becomes joy. Call it to your arms where it can change.”

Description : From the perspective of a woman, how do you interpret Robert Frost's: "The Road Not Taken"?

Last Answer : I don’t think that my subjective interpretation has got anything to do with me being a woman.

Description : Is the value of "e" too much for a high school graduate to be expected to know?

Last Answer : answer:I find Wikipedia to be very bad at math and statistics. Definitely not the place for beginners to look. You might find it easier to follow Wolfram Alpha‘s explanation of natural logarithms (which is the context for understanding what e is). Also… e is never capitalized. :)

Description : When studying sonnets or other poems, why do we analyze the stressed and unstressed syllables?

Last Answer : The author had a rhythm in mind when he/she wrote the piece. If you don’t get that down how are you living up to what the author had in mind? Is that simple enough for a teenager?

Description : Does anyone recognize this poem?

Last Answer : I get a somewhat shaky attribution to Aaron Diaz on this guy’s homepage.

Description : Would you share your favorite poem with me?

Last Answer : answer:Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening excerpt: The woods are lovely, dark, and deep, But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleep, And miles to go before I sleep.

Description : What is a poem you have written?

Last Answer : answer:Four cats sleep draped and scattered like fallen petals A fire burns, deep and strong to bathe their feline dreams in warmth The old ones must have much to dream of nearly 30 years of ... of yours backs curved against the dimming fire and dream, your golden eyes shut tight against tomorrow.

Description : How about sharing a poem or some favorite lines to lift the spirits in a dark time?

Last Answer : answer:This is one of my favorites: Dust of Snow BY ROBERT FROST The way a crow Shook down on me The dust of snow From a hemlock tree Has given my heart A change of mood And saved some part Of a day I had rued.

Description : With which book should I begin reading Allen Ginsberg?

Last Answer : Howl. It was his first real work to be made public.

Description : Would you share a poem that has touched your heart? Or a quote or saying?

Last Answer : “There comes a point in your life when you realize who matters, who never did, who won’t anymore, and who always will. So don’t worry about the people from your past: there’s a reason they didn’t make it to your future” – not sure who said this, but I like it a lot :)

Description : Can you help me identify this poem?

Last Answer : answer:As I grow older and older, And totter towards the tomb, I find that I care less and less Who goes to bed with whom. - Dorothy L(eigh) Sayers ‘That’sWhy I Never Read Modern Novels’, collected in Janet Hitchman Such a Strange Lady (1975), ch.12.

Description : Can you identify this literary fragment ?

Last Answer : answer:Sounds like it could be Proust. Remembrance of Things Past, perhaps. I’m guessing it’s a French author because of the reference to the Seine. I’m thinking Proust or some other equally overwrought author because of the sort of existential fever of the subject matter.

Description : Who is your favorite poet?

Last Answer : answer:My all time favorite is Walt Whitman, but I also enjoy William Blake, William Wordsworth, Alfred Lord Tennyson, John Donne, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Emily Dickinson, Allen Ginsburg, Maya Angelou, ... more. My most modern favorites are Pia Taavila and John Lee Clark. and Shakespeare ;D

Description : Any Edgar Allan Poe fans here?

Last Answer : answer:Lol, incidentally I love Poe. I had a weird fascination with him and Gothic literature in high school. Where can I begin with Poe? It's been a while since I've read anything by him, but just ... Murders in the Rue Morgue I got through but it was just too weird for me. What about yourself?

Description : What difference do you find between The Iliad and The Odyssey?

Last Answer : answer:From what little I remember from my Literature classes the Iliad is about a bunch of pompuous, pig-headed, relentless a**holes fighting over a broad, with barely any respect for human life, but their ... better side of the human psyche, and that is why it we might like it more over Iliad.

Description : Anyone want to partake in a haiku thread?

Last Answer : answer:I’ll start One two three four five One two three four five six sev… One two three four five