[lit-ideas] Re: [Spam] Re: HC Reed
- From: "Steven G. Cameron" <stevecam@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2005 10:11:02 -0400
Judy Evans wrote:
> Goodness! I think of these poems as very Brit.
**Hmmm. In the mid 1960s, poetry taught in American schools were
relying upon traditional (the "classics"??) British poems.
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> SGC> We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
> SGC> In Flanders fields.
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> Yes -- it is genuinely haunting. Poppies also grow in the fields on the slow
> railway line from London to the Channel Coast, and grew on the
> bomb-sites in the Bath of my very early childhood, and I love them,
> but still, these words go with me.
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**With respect to academia's usual anti-Vietnam, dovish sentiments
during the 1960s (and even more so, later on in the 1970s), one wonders
if the poems for us to study were deliberately selected...??
> Do you know "The Flowers of the Forest" (about the Battle of Flodden)?
> Very different. But I find it a little haunting, too: I can hear a
> piper's lament.
**Not before yesterday. It is indeed haunting -- in the two versions
easily located on the Web. Thank you.
TC,
/Steve Cameron, NJ
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