Friday, June 1, 2012

A Thousand Ships Comments

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Yes, Leda, you may swim
the pond with just your name on:
hang your tunic on an olive limb
and toss a crust to that swan.
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William F Dougherty
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Heather Wilkins 28 September 2013

a nicely written quatrain

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Jim Hogg 01 December 2012

A deceptively simple quatrain that conceals a thousand complexities. The two comments below are a worthy bonus.

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William F Dougherty 11 June 2012

It is Homeric. Zeus (the swan) impregnates Leda, whence springs Helen of Troy, the Iliad, etc., and the famous line: Was this the face that launched a thousand ships? Bare-assed girl ignited the foundations of Western Lit. (See Leda and the Swan by Yeats.) Not much gets past you.

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Captain Cur 08 June 2012

Breading the waters of love. Great Zeus!

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William F Dougherty

William F Dougherty

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