> [Original Message] > From: Eric Yost <eyost1132@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Date: 3/26/2005 5:31:38 PM > Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: National Poetry Month exercise? > > Mirembe: On the other hand, Richard Wilbur is a major babe - poetically > anyway (I have no idea what he actually looks like). > > Eric: He's gettin' kinda elderly now but was a generally handsome man. > Sylvia Plath's parents cajoled him to speak to Sylvia so she could see > that great poets could also be "normal" human beings. He spoke to her, > but it didn't alter the course of her life. > A.A. This reminds me of Shakespeare being asked to cajole the Earl of Southampton into marriage by writing him sonnets on the subject. Shakespeare, being Shakespeare, knew that the only way to reach the then 16 year old Southampton was to appeal to his vanity. The tact he used was that marriage would immortalize Southampton by giving him children to carry on his image. Shakespeare, around 28 years old, fell in love with the 16 year old earl and it's thought they had an affair. Today we'd term that pedophilia. It's odd that even Shakespeare, the master observer of the species, presumably couldn't see into his own heart, himself having gotten into a loveless marriage at the age of 18. Or maybe he could. I saw the original Invasion of the Body Snatchers. Just wondering, if one likes that movie, is one a podophile? Andy Amago > His long poem "Walking to Sleep" (which I have memorized) is one of my > personal favorites of all time and genres. Maybe I'll type that out for > the fifteenth; on the other hand, I was thinking of posting something > from one of the best younger poets.... > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, > digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html