Comments | moireach: Sir! I promise nothing!!

moireach

Sir! I promise nothing!!

Mar 31, 2008 14:49

ANNOUNCEMENT: Tomorrow is the first day of National Poetry Month! I will be resurrecting my NaPoMo email list for the fourth(!) year running, and sending out a delicious poem every day. If you want to get in on the hot poetry action, you can join here or send an email to april_is-subscribe@yahoogroups.com. And tell other people you know! Check ( Read more... )

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moireach March 31 2008, 20:20:16 UTC

Yay, I hope you like!

fitofpique March 31 2008, 20:17:22 UTC

oh, i love that you do this SO MUCH! i have added the feed!

moireach March 31 2008, 20:21:26 UTC

<3 <3 I get so psyched when I see you bookmarking poems in del.icio.us!!

fitofpique March 31 2008, 20:25:29 UTC

hee! mostly i am just bookmarking your bookmarks! i should try harder.

miss_bennie March 31 2008, 20:19:54 UTC

I am VERY EXCITED about this, especially since when I went to the link I saw that your last poem from last April was "Journey of the Magi" and it's one of my favorite poems ever. I--I may have once written a supremely wretchy paper on it that I presented at an English Dept. meeting.

moireach March 31 2008, 20:24:39 UTC

What was your paper on, tell me!! Haha, I-- certainly don't reread that poem every year at Christmas.

miss_bennie March 31 2008, 20:43:43 UTC

It was on how the poem is actually about two parallel journeys, of both the Magi and the narrator, which possibly tied in with Eliot's own conversion of faith, how it seems on the surface like a basic retelling of the Epiphany but is actually filled with all of the allusions to the Crucifixion and establishes the Christian mystery that is being sought out by both the Magi and Eliot, how birth and death are connected, and what kind of birth/death is actually being discussed, how that spiritual awakening affects someone, etc etc. I don't know, it was long? I have a lot of feelings about the poem? Don't stop being my friend?

agate March 31 2008, 20:20:32 UTC

Yay, I love April!

moireach March 31 2008, 20:25:02 UTC

April is the coolest month.

annakovsky March 31 2008, 20:36:28 UTC

Hahaha, I'm still just envisioning your panicky face when I asked you yesterday if it was the last day of March.

I HAVE FRIENDED THE FEED.

brinshannara March 31 2008, 23:21:17 UTC

Hahaha, I'm still just envisioning your panicky face when I asked you yesterday if it was the last day of March.

I think you win the Official "How Can I Panic moireach" Contest. Well done, lady, well done.

moireach April 1 2008, 16:09:01 UTC

Haha, IT'S LIKE ASKING AN ASTRONAUT IF THE LAUNCH IS TOMORROW.