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I have introduced my students to Amanda McKittrick Ros (she of Holy Moses!, have a look! fame), and now Dr Alexander. Somewhere a poem is aborning, a breathing-in-and-out pain of life….
Kudos, Father Z! It is always the sure sign of a great Priest who not only knows his philosophy and Sacred Theology, but who is a devotee of all the arts, including poetry. This is a hilarious and much needed criticism of what passed so sadly for poetry yesterday. I add my own criticism:
http://quidmihiettibiest.blogspot.com/2009/01/praise-song-for-day.html
~cmpt
When I was a kid in elementary school back in the Stone Age (~1955) the good sisters taught us about poetry and they also taught us about something called “free verse.”
The difference was rhyme and meter. The former had it, the latter did not.
While I don’t believe it was ever explicitly stated, I certainly got the impression that they much preferred the former, since to do it well required a richer vocabulary and much more work.
There once was an amateur poet
alas sadly, she didn’t know it
Her prose for the prez
was an embarrassing mezz
All America now woes it.
Thank you, thank you very much… I’ll be here all week.
Vesanum poetam qui sapiunt fugiunt.
Horace, Ars Poetica 455
Not to mention that good/true Art enchants the mundane…and Alexander’s poem merely enumertaed it.
Sigh…may she have her sight cleared in a Mooreeffoc soon, and then begin to enjoy real poetry.
Whoops! “enumerated”…
The better poem, of course, was Rev. Lowery’s little ditty, er, benediction. I present the closing stanza:
Lord, in the memory of all the saints who from their labors rest, and in the joy of a new beginning, we ask you to help us work for that day when black will not be asked to get in back, when brown can stick around … when yellow will be mellow … when the red man can get ahead, man; and when white will embrace what is right. That all those who do justice and love mercy say Amen.
Hey, it rhymes, man!
Doc Alexander’s poem proclaimed
“I know there’s something better …”
She then went on, quite unrestrained
By either rhyme or meter
“Praise song for every hand-lettered sign”
She voiced, so proud and tall
“to see what’s on the other side…”
Caused half to leave the mall
“In today’s sharp sparkle, this winter air…”
A line contrived, gratuitous
She blathered on, without a care
Of what this poem could do to us….
Sounds like we’ve missed out on some of her finer poetry:
No Poetry Controversy?
http://www.mrc.org/BozellColumns/entertainmentcolumn/2009/col20090115.asp
Just for fun
I don’t care. If it doesn’t rhyme, it isn’t a poem.
Non curo. Si metrum non habet, non est poema.
Of course, this was a reflection of the literary mediocrity afflicting our culture. No doubt, most of you, like me, thought we could have indeed penned something more relevant.
Did we expect the finesse of a Sara Teasdale? An individualistic renegade ( most appropriate, no?) of Emily Dickinson? Gone.
And Obama’s speech? He’s no Churchill, but I doubt McCain would have done any better with his Political Barbie at his side. There are no statesmen anymore, only politicians.
And I am surprised no one took issue with that charletan generic preacher Rick Warren. He was truly a waste.