Tarantella Comments
Do you remember an Inn,
Miranda?
Do you remember an Inn?
And the tedding and the spreading
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Just visible now on my home page. Congratulations being chosen as The Classic Poem Of The Day!
Enjioyed very much having reread this! I had given this 5 Stars earlier in this year but I do it now once again because of the brilliant tunes in this Song poem
This is thought-provoking poem but sweetly tuned in best end rhymes and brilliant rhythm.5 Stars full!
Amazing thought-provoking poem. Finest read, bit melancholic.but very brilliant.5 Stars!
Congratulations for this amazing thought-provoking poem. Finest read, bit melancholic.but very brilliant.5 Stars!
Amazing! You really evoked a lot of feeling here. Such joy and ruckus in the first part and such lament in the second. Well done!
It was a staple of the poetry anthologies when I started teaching in the early 60s. The Highwayman was another similar poem. I don’t suppose you would ever see these poems in schools now! Not 'woke' enough!
Do you remember the old, young Johnson” Do you remember the old? They have fears of your tiers and the change in their years You are bold, but they’re cold and terribly old And they don’t realise what you are? And you stand, hand by hand, and we don’t understand (behind the trio of the wooden lecterns) Do you remember the old, young Johnson? Do you remember the old?
Lovely and exciting, but why is it called Tarentella when this dance is Italian?
A beautiful piece of poetry made all the more poignant by the change of pace in the final chapter. Who was Miranda I wonder. The narration is poor and does not do the poem justice
Miranda Macdonald, a Scot, who he met on holiday. He wrote her the poen some 30 years later.
A beautiful work made all the more so by the sudden change of rhythm in the final verseWho was Miranda? I have often wondered
The recital did not do this beautiful poem justice. When I learned it as a child, it was melodic, passionate, lively....this narration is plain woeful!
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7/18/2025 4:18:59 PM # 1.0.0
Rereading this, still an amazing read and excellent poem