Thursday, April 22, 2010

The Stoic: For Laura Von Courten Comments

Rating: 3.1

All winter long you listened for the boom
Of distant cannon wheeled into their place.
Sometimes outside beneath a bombers’ moon
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Edgar Bowers
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Sylvia Frances Chan 19 December 2022

(C) under whom Bowers studied at Stanford, but his achievement far surpasses that of his mentor, and his other students, such as J. V. Cunningham. He often wrote in rhyme, but also produced some of the finest blank verse in the English language

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Sylvia Frances Chan 19 December 2022

(B) The effect of this contrast is striking: at once balanced and engaged; detached but acutely aware of sensual satisfactions. The style owes much to the artistic ethos of Yvor Winters,

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Sylvia Frances Chan 19 December 2022

(A) ABOUT THE POET IN HIS BIO: Very important to know this: That 'physical world' encompasses and love, which are refracted through his restrained and lapidary lines..

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Sylvia Frances Chan 19 December 2022

CONGRATULATIONS to the family of the late great Poet, this poem being chosen as The Classic Poem Of The Day!

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Sylvia Frances Chan 19 December 2022

THREE: Beautiful end rhymes, a cynical statement about the war at the time, nine stanzas long, but every word has been weighed and weighed. The beautiful cynicism shines here.

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Sylvia Frances Chan 19 December 2022

TWO: does the German Laura really exist? Or is this poem a statement by the poet himself? Enjoyed this sad poem about the war, an indictment of the war itself.

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Sylvia Frances Chan 19 December 2022

ONE: the ongoing war expressed and addressed to the stoic Laura, even Venice is mentioned because it slowly sinks further and further and will eventually disappear,

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Chinedu Dike 19 December 2022

A beautiful creation, well conceived and nicely put together

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Bernard F. Asuncion 10 January 2017

The darkest days during the war++++++++++++++++ Thanks for sharing++++++++++

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Seamus O Brian 10 January 2017

In the midst of tragedy to will the mind to become without meaning or place, and therein to find peace when all else is war. Beautifully crafted poetry. Writing at a level to which we should all aspire.

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Tom Allport 10 January 2017

nice poem of sad memories and sad thoughts of real events during the war.

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Edward Kofi Louis 10 January 2017

All winter long! ! Thanks for sharing this poem with us.

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