[lit-ideas] Re: Bad Poetry Competition 2011: Romantic/Touched
- From: David Ritchie <ritchierd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2011 11:51:07 -0700
On Jun 16, 2011, at 1:34 AM, Donal McEvoy wrote:
> The second is 'the genuine article', the first is by David who, cor blimey
> may the lawd strike me with a ten stretch in chokey if it ain't, is sometimes
> possessed of the spirit of Dick van Dyke in 'Mary Poppins'. 'Strawdinary.
>
Donal is right about the second example. It's by one Bob Harris. I know the
following: he's probably not the Australian who shows up when you search
Wikipedia; he published in Scotland; this was written in the 1970's.
The first is indeed by a spirit in possession, but surely it's equally likely
that one of Kipling's actors, or someone from my childhood in London was firing
the neurons? The line from Wordsworth awakened a class clown, one who had been
put to sleep by repeated primary school lectures on what the lowest form of wit
is.
I dare to wonder if Robert and I were thinking along the same lines,
considering how taste in poetry changes with time and age. Maybe when he's done
tripping over my heels, he'll say?
David Ritchie,
enduring clouds and gloom again,
somewhere that isn't Scotland.
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