Sunday, October 7, 2018

A Disquisition On Two Poems About Skylarks Comments

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Shelley apostrophized a skylark...Across the centuries I came upon an answering poem that also goes to the lark's essence.

In Ted Hughes' 'Skylark' the poet takes a modern view, paring that bird down to life-energy that needs to be dissipated.
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Belinda Tsau 06 October 2019

I like this line a lot:  "It is a vertical migration, made for its own sake in a single morning, demonstrating aesthetic intent in the Creation.'' Nice imagination and creative thinking...

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Julia Luber 10 July 2019

There is so much in your poem; I'll have to read the one by Ted Hughes later. You have done something wonderful with your poem- highly cognitive-highly cerebral, through which we really start to feel the poet's mind las finely engineered as a bird's wings for flying. There are so many layers here. I'll have to spend more time reading. So many nuances. Thank you for referring me to it!

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