It's been a long time since I've memed

[filkerdave]

The poetry meme, via ladysprite who got it from wcg who got it from browngirl who possibly got it from Agnes. If you have a favorite poem, please share it!

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[wolfette]

I remember being fond of several Walter de la Mare poems when I was younger, but most of them faded from memory as I grew up. I sort of stopped reading poetry sometime in high school while being beaten around the head with stuff for O levels and Highers. Somehow my English teacher and I never saw eye to eye on our choices.

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Согласен.

[watericgun]

You should!

[anaisdjuna]

From the Ghost of Christmas Plath

[filkerdave]

This is a lovely piece that I'd not seen before. Thank you.

[anaisdjuna]

You're welcome. It, quite literally, woke me from a dead sleep at 3am demanding to be written.

I believe you have seen it before, you just don't remember.

[hitchhiker]

one of my favourites too

[batyatoon]

Here's one that your poem above always reminds me of -- I think they may have been on opposite pages of the book I first read them in. I've been working on setting this to music.

O Where Are You Going?
W.H. Auden

"O where are you going?" said reader to rider,
"That valley is fatal where furnaces burn,
Yonder's the midden whose odours will madden,
That gap is the grave where the tall return."

"O do you imagine," said fearer to farer,
"That dusk will delay on your path to the pass,
Your diligent looking discover the lacking,
Your footsteps feel from granite to grass?"

"O what was that bird," said horror to hearer,
"Did you see that shape in the twisted trees?
Behind you swiftly the figure comes softly,
The spot on your skin is a shocking disease."

"Out of this house"---said rider to reader,
"Yours never will"---said farer to fearer
"They're looking for you"---said hearer to horror,
As he left them there, as he left them there.

[filkerdave]

Doesn't this mostly scan to The Cutty Wren?