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Friday, February 11, 2005
Our poetry here seems to be a bit death focused. But what can you do? The great Romantic poets were all weary of life, and especially of a world that failed to hail them as the almighty geniuses they felt they were.
Tonight's was another Thomas Lovell Beddoes poem, Beddoes being one of the stranger poets of the period but also one of the most interesting. Verse wise. I know nothing about the man otherwise, but he's popped up three or four times now in my selections here.
Cicero took note of last night's entry, Tithonus, by the mighty Tennyson, and gave a short summary. Here's another summation, though, that I ran across tonight:I would not live forever, because we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live forever, but we cannot live forever, which is why I would not live forever. - Miss Alabama 1994 Sounds like she's been taking lessons from Pangloss.
Cicero also has your vocabulary word for the day, adelphopoiesis. Better look it up. There'll be a quiz tomorrow.
posted by gbarto at 12:08 AM
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