green_dreams: (lilac 25th may)
green_dreams ([personal profile] green_dreams) wrote2005-06-06 12:52 pm
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*waves* Hi, [personal profile] waterspyder!

6 Currently Favourite Songs (in no particular order, and honestly, they'll probably change in a bit...)

1.) Axxis - Heaven in Black
2.) William Orbit - Samuel Barber's Adagio For Strings
3.) Johnny Cash - The Man Comes Around
4.) Duane Elms - Dawson's Christian
5.) Bruce Springsteen - Thunder Road
6.) The Pogues - Fairytale of New York

6 People I Want To Post Their List of 6 Favorite Songs

No. But... hrm...

6 Currently Favourite Poems

Wendy Cope - Defining the Problem
Mervyn Peake - London, 1941
Bruce Springsteen - Thunder Road (yes, song lyrics count)
William Yeats - The Second Coming
Matthew Arnold - Dover Beach
Edwin Arlington Robinson - Richard Cory

There's another I'd put up here, but I can't find it--it showed up in one of the yearly anthologies back in the late nineties. A three-page romantic story written in iambic pentameter, IIRC; boy and girl fall in love, boy goes off to war, boy gets "Dear John" letter, boy dies, boy comes back from grave to wedding and takes girl's heart--because she *did* promise him "Love me or leave me, my heart's yours forever/Take it or break it, I give it to you."

All very sweet, really. Anyone recognize it?

Anyway. :)

6 People I Want To Post Their List of 6 Favorite Poems

[livejournal.com profile] waterspyder, [livejournal.com profile] jl_williams, [livejournal.com profile] amazon_syren, [livejournal.com profile] baanrys, [livejournal.com profile] commodorified, [livejournal.com profile] harald387, [livejournal.com profile] oni_neko, [livejournal.com profile] siv_volk...

...my, I can't count. Also, I'm apparently being hesitant about bugging the Ohio people to do this. It's no slight, I just feel weird asking, for some reason... (Also, I think I see less memes in your LJs than the ones up here, as a rule.)

[identity profile] harald387.livejournal.com 2005-06-06 06:26 pm (UTC)(link)
Can I do songs instead? Some of us don't have the benefit of an English degree and an interest in poetry.

Which is to say 'I'm an uneducated hick from the back woods of Canada.'

-K

[identity profile] torrain.livejournal.com 2005-06-06 06:46 pm (UTC)(link)
Song lyrics totally count.

[identity profile] commodorified.livejournal.com 2005-06-06 06:34 pm (UTC)(link)
I never do memes. feel loved. (http://www.livejournal.com/users/commodorified/56374.html)

[identity profile] torrain.livejournal.com 2005-06-06 06:56 pm (UTC)(link)
I feel loved. :)

I remember the first time I heard that Thomas Hardy poem... We were at Ottawa U, and you were getting something photocopied (basement of Tabaret, I think?).

Now, of course, I'm regretting not listing Dorothy Parker's Resume (http://eir.library.utoronto.ca/rpo/display/poem1558.html).

[identity profile] commodorified.livejournal.com 2005-06-06 06:59 pm (UTC)(link)
Siamrd, I think. Same thing :-)

[identity profile] benarian.livejournal.com 2005-06-06 07:01 pm (UTC)(link)
I'll speak for the rest of the Ohio folks by saying "bug us whenever you want". :)

[identity profile] torrain.livejournal.com 2005-06-07 03:29 am (UTC)(link)
...and yet I see no poetry...?

[identity profile] unnamed525.livejournal.com 2005-06-07 07:21 am (UTC)(link)
Eh? Er ... um ... I don't think I know the names of six poems, to be honest.

[identity profile] torrain.livejournal.com 2005-06-07 01:29 pm (UTC)(link)
Song lyrics count, especially if they're songs you like because of the lyrics, not the combinations of lyrics and music. Ditto religious texts, and I know you've read at least part of the Bible. And if you know phrases not entire poems, Google is a wonder and a delight...

[identity profile] unnamed525.livejournal.com 2005-06-07 03:54 pm (UTC)(link)
Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came - Robert Browning
A DEATH-BLOW is a life-blow to some - Emily Dickenson
The Song of Solomon - Solomon
Dionysus - Aleister Crowley
The Iliad - Homer
A Chaosmas Carol (http://www.23ae.com/index.asp?post=49) - Ratatosk (aka [livejournal.com profile] tosk), Squirrel of Discord

[identity profile] torrain.livejournal.com 2005-06-07 03:18 am (UTC)(link)
Excellent. Pick your poems, then. }:)

[identity profile] benarian.livejournal.com 2005-06-07 11:28 am (UTC)(link)
aRgH!

Thinking this hard makes my brain hurt. I wish I could remember titles and authors for this sort of thing better.

Jabberwocky - Lewis Carol
The Odessy - Epic Poetry counts, doesn't it?
Road Less Traveled - Robert Frost
Beowulf - Tolkien translation
A Midsummer Night's Dream - Shakespear

Just off the top of my head. . .

[identity profile] torrain.livejournal.com 2005-06-07 01:32 pm (UTC)(link)
> The Odessy - Epic Poetry counts, doesn't it?

Totally. (Hrm. This topic seems to bring up that word in my vocabulary. Wonder why?)

> A Midsummer Night's Dream - Shakespear

The entire play? *blinks* I would not have thought of that as a poem, but given the fact that I was really really tempted to include oone of Bradbury's short stories on my own list, I certainly won't quibble with it.

[identity profile] benarian.livejournal.com 2005-06-07 01:39 pm (UTC)(link)
Thanks, I was running low on works of verse that I could actually put a name to, let alone express a preference for. ;)

[identity profile] unnamed525.livejournal.com 2005-06-07 03:54 pm (UTC)(link)
I know; it made my brain hurt too.

[identity profile] sivi-volk.livejournal.com 2005-06-06 07:08 pm (UTC)(link)
Neat. I'll have those up sometime tonight.