Misguided Quotes: disdain of poetry from other artists

[foehn]

I ran across this recently, in my browsing:

"Any poem by Emily Dickinson can be sung to the tune of "The Yellow Rose of Texas."

--Gerald Custer

Besides knowing it's not true, I thought it was flippant and disrespectful. Thoughts?

 

[BooMerengue]

I ran across this recently, in my browsing:

"Any poem by Emily Dickinson can be sung to the tune of "The Yellow Rose of Texas."

--Gerald Custer

Besides knowing it's not true, I thought it was flippant and disrespectful. Thoughts?

Have you ever heard of an Idiot Savant? It's a person who is mind boggling brilliant in one area, and dumber than a moron in all other areas. They can't even wipe.

I think he's one.

 

[annaswirls]

I ran across this recently, in my browsing:

"Any poem by Emily Dickinson can be sung to the tune of "The Yellow Rose of Texas."

--Gerald Custer

Besides knowing it's not true, I thought it was flippant and disrespectful. Thoughts?

oh you know I like old Emily, or some of her stuff, but eh hem, it is pretty true. one of the English teachers in our school told us this and then we proceeded to sing as many of her lines that we could remember, I almost peed myself singing:

"because I could not stop for death
he kindly stopped for me!"

come on sing it everybody!

We got out the poetry section of the kids lit books and voila, many of them worked quite well



I think that he is pretty smart for noticing her patterning in writing. I dont think there is anything wrong with having a rhythm and pattern in your words, it is one of the thigns that makes reading her poems so pleasing.

but of course he probably meant it in a snooty demeaning way so pa-tooey on him

 

[annaswirls]

oh who said it-- paraphrased

"it was not hard to teach the ape
how to write poetry.

just sit him in front of the typewriter
and say "You look like a God sitting there."


I think it was a poet... yes... coming back to me....

I will find it before the day is through -- one of the funniest things I have ever read.

 

[Angeline]

I heard that Dickinson thing when I was in college--and it does work with most of her poems. It sucked because it made me not want to read her for a long time--because I couldn't *not* read and keep that song out of my head!

And that is a shame because she was a genius of a poet.

 

[Randi Grail]

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oh you know I like old Emily, or some of her stuff, but eh hem, it is pretty true. one of the English teachers in our school told us this and then we proceeded to sing as many of her lines that we could remember, I almost peed myself singing:

"because I could not stop for death
he kindly stopped for me!"

In High School, reading Nordic litterature, me and some classmates discovered that almost 2/3 of all old Viking skald verses we could find could be sung to the melody of "Whiskey In The Jar".

 

[Tathagata]

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In High School, reading Nordic litterature, me and some classmates discovered that almost 2/3 of all old Viking skald verses we could find sould be sung to the melody of "Whiskey In The Jar".

after a few drinks everything can be sung to "whiskey in the jar"...or turns into it.

Hello Randi ,Very nice to see you back

 

[Tathagata]

I ran across this recently, in my browsing:

"Any poem by Emily Dickinson can be sung to the tune of "The Yellow Rose of Texas."

--Gerald Custer

Besides knowing it's not true, I thought it was flippant and disrespectful. Thoughts?

yeah but it was funny as hell

 

[*Catbabe*]

Great.

Now I am going to singing "The Yellow Rose of Texas" all day long....which is fairly odd for a Canadian chick.

 

[Tathagata]

Great.

Now I am going to singing "The Yellow Rose of Texas" all day long....which is fairly odd for a Canadian chick.

well maybe you'll get the chance to wreak some random violence on someone..that usually perks you up

 

[Angeline]

Great.

Now I am going to singing "The Yellow Rose of Texas" all day long....which is fairly odd for a Canadian chick.

They'll think you like our prezzie. lol.

Be careful.



(Ever read Dave Barry's Bad Songs book? It's my secret weapon. I can put a song in your head and it'll stay there. And you'll hate it. Well, not that'd I do it to you...)

 

[Randi Grail]

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Hello Randi ,Very nice to see you back

Hello T!

 

[foehn]

dyslexia, revisited...

Haven't had the pleasure of meeting Randi yet, but was noticing the avatar, then the location, and reading "closing the dairy"...

Yeah, I know, it's not funny or cute or anything. It's just me.

 

[annaswirls]

found it

James Tate
1943-

Teaching the Ape to Write

They didn't have much trouble
teaching the ape to write poems:
first they strapped him into the chair
then tied his pencil around his hand
(the paper had already been nailed down).
Then Dr. Bluespire leaned over his shoulder
and whispered into his ear:
"You look a god sitting there.
Why don't you try to write something?"

 

[annaswirls]

here's one that doesn't work

I'm nobody! Who are you?
Are you nobody, too?
Then there's a pair of us--don't tell!
They'd banish us, you know.

How dreary to be somebody!
How public, like a frog
To tell your name the livelong day
To an admiring bog!

~Emily Dickenson