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Post by Carl LaFong on Nov 26, 2022 12:56:39 GMT
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Post by Nalkarj on Nov 27, 2022 13:22:50 GMT
Some of these choices are certainly good poems, but I wonder if any of them will cheer anyone up. Dickinson’s “‘Hope’ is the thing with feathers—,” for instance, is about hope but isn’t going to leave many readers feeling hopeful.
And no one thought of Whitman’s “On the Beach at Night” (not to be confused with “On the Beach at Night Alone”) or “When I Heard at the Close of the Day”?
Also, the following Phyllis McGinley poem came to mind when I read the subject, both because of subject and style:Oh, and this McGinley too:In fact, a bunch of McGinleys could fit here. She was one of the greats.
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Post by mikef6 on Nov 27, 2022 16:18:10 GMT
Nalkarj Those are great poems to read aloud and to make you laugh and boast the mood. I’m glad that at least two classic poems were included (Andrew Motion). Here is one of my favorites celebrating how important love and/or friendship is to happiness. Sonnet 29 by William Shakespeare When, in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes, I all alone beweep my outcast state, And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries, And look upon myself and curse my fate, Wishing me like to one more rich in hope, Featured like him, like him with friends possessed, Desiring this man’s art and that man’s scope, With what I most enjoy contented least; Yet in these thoughts myself almost despising, Haply I think on thee, and then my state, (Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth) sings hymns at heaven’s gate; For thy sweet love remembered such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings.
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