[NPM] today's poem

[angevin2]

Achilles' Song
Robert Duncan

I do not know more than the Sea tells me,
told me long ago, or I overheard Her
telling distant roar upon the sands,
waves of meaning in the cradle of whose
sounding and resounding power I
slept.

Manchild, She sang

Comments

[angevin2]

Yay, I thought you would like this one! :D

I actually gave a fantastic, if I do say so myself, lecture on the Iliad last night (I finally feel comfortable teaching it, because I've done it about seven times in the past year). Of course, I don't think my students appreciated it at all, because they hadn't understood the reading and the anthology's use of the Lattimore translation did not help.

[helixaspersa]

Thanks for this. I am stuck in hospital and I really like Duncan.