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samsomI've recently run across two very different poems, ones I haven't read in a long time but the fragments of which floated around the back of my unconscious for years.
The first is long, several verses and I've been listening to Loreena McKeenitt sing it on my iPod, falling more and more in love with it with every play.
The Highwayman by Alfred Noyes
http://web.cecs.pdx.edu/~trent/ochs/lyrics/highwayman-orig.html
V & VI are my favorite verses, plus the last four. I just adore the repetition of certain words and phrases, and of course, it's a great story. Very tragic.
The second is The Look by Sara Teasdale. I think I read this the one and only time before today when I was about twelve or thirteen. It dug its way down into my pysche and influenced a lot of what I try and write - the unspoken, the subtext, between two people. I don't always succeed, if ever, but I try. I found it today thanks to the miracle of Google.
http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poem/2964.html
If anyone is so inclined, what words are you grooving on currently, have grooved on?
The first is long, several verses and I've been listening to Loreena McKeenitt sing it on my iPod, falling more and more in love with it with every play.
The Highwayman by Alfred Noyes
http://web.cecs.pdx.edu/~trent/ochs/lyrics/highwayman-orig.html
V & VI are my favorite verses, plus the last four. I just adore the repetition of certain words and phrases, and of course, it's a great story. Very tragic.
The second is The Look by Sara Teasdale. I think I read this the one and only time before today when I was about twelve or thirteen. It dug its way down into my pysche and influenced a lot of what I try and write - the unspoken, the subtext, between two people. I don't always succeed, if ever, but I try. I found it today thanks to the miracle of Google.
http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poem/2964.html
If anyone is so inclined, what words are you grooving on currently, have grooved on?
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Date: 2007-08-09 02:03 am (UTC)I think the Highwayman creates a sense of midnight that I'd love to incorporate into a fic. The black sky, the black outlines of the trees, the sound of a horse's hooves before you see the rider. I just felt everything in it, the feeling between the lovers, the sense that Bess wouldn't let him die no matter what. She took control of a situation where they tried to render her without control or choice.