Re: Bitter bacardi makes the black stones dance. by SupremeDreamer	7-Jun-04/3:26 PM
Oh, and you henceforth have no right to pontificate about stuffy "classic" style when you have talked about a "hat so drear." What's worse though is that you've done it in a poem with "rollin'" and " 'cause" sprinkled through it. It's jarring to say the least.
Re: a comment on Le Sommeil- Slumber by Sasha	7-Jun-04/3:23 PM
Oh fine. I'll change it
Re: Bitter bacardi makes the black stones dance. by SupremeDreamer	7-Jun-04/3:17 PM
I'll give you $30 if you can find one native english speaker who actually talks like this. No one English dialect exhibits all of the features in this villanelle. So I'll have to give you a six for being inauthentic and inconsistent.
Re: a comment on Le Sommeil- Slumber by Sasha	7-Jun-04/3:06 PM
They're both mine. Neither is a literature assignment or a chore. I've known French since birth and occasionally write in it. What's classical about it?
Re: USS Pride by DR Limerick	7-Jun-04/1:49 PM
"her" has long ceased to be viable as a reflexive pronoun.
Re: a comment on Solipsistic, Drunk, But Still Friends by horus8	6-Jun-04/4:53 AM
or maybe "howl" by allen ginsberg is a steaming pile of refulgent bow'ls and does not deserve the capitalization of its title any more than e.e. cummings' name.
Re: a comment on she. by opiate	4-Jun-04/6:06 PM
*gloats*
Re: a comment on Lorca: Canción del Jinete by Sasha	25-May-04/10:03 PM
So what in the name of all holy things are you doing here on my lowly page?
Re: a comment on Lorca: Canción del Jinete by Sasha	25-May-04/10:01 PM
I wouldn't have had the idea of its political ties unless you gave it to me. Thanks.
Re: a comment on Lorca: Canción del Jinete by Sasha	25-May-04/10:00 PM
Zodiac's going to have a fieldday with this page I can feel it already
Re: a comment on Lorca: Canción del Jinete by Sasha	25-May-04/9:53 PM
Perhaps it does have political ties. There's another poem Lorca wrote under the same title (Canción del Jinete) with the subtitle of "Córdoba" which is more specific, the last stanza of which is: ¡Ay que camino tan lango! ¡Ay mi jaca valerosa! ¡Ay que la muerte me espera! Antes de llegar a Córdoba. (Oh the road so long before me/ Oh my brave and sable pony/ Oh, for death is waiting for me/ Long before I get to Córdoba) Considering that Lorca was an Andalusian poet, it may have had some political significance, though I am unsure of to what extent or of what nature.
Re: a comment on Lorca: Canción del Jinete by Sasha	25-May-04/9:44 PM
none. who said there was one?
Re: a comment on Lorca: Canción del Jinete by Sasha	25-May-04/9:34 PM
I am a hack. A dignified, amateur hack. I never said I wasn't. I challenge you to do a better job on this poem than I did.
Re: a comment on Lorca: Canción del Jinete by Sasha	25-May-04/9:33 PM
No. Now I must run the risk of arrogance, which I am quite willing to do. I probably know these literatures (with the exception of spanish literature, which I am still working at) much better than you ever will. Don't even think about telling me about my "poor perspective" on literature when I have sampled a far greater variety of poetry from a far greater number of cultures and languages than I'm sure you have. I can't write? Phew, felt that. At least I can capitalise the first-person pronouns in all of my poems. I don't compare myself to the "greats" as you call them. I am merely stating that what you so blandly and generally lable as plagarism has been done by most of the world's poets. Then again, poemranker is the last place I'd go to for serious opinions on my writing.
Re: a comment on Lorca: Canción del Jinete by Sasha	25-May-04/9:19 PM
the dead rider that this poem's about? Probably a symbol for Lorca's own feelings.
Re: a comment on Lorca: Canción del Jinete by Sasha	25-May-04/9:04 PM
Tell it to Zhukovsky, Nabokov, Rilke, Mallarmé and all the rest I have already mentioned above
Re: a comment on Lorca: Canción del Jinete by Sasha	25-May-04/9:03 PM
its a symbol for the rider who's riding upon it. His blood stained the ground. Must I repeat myself again?
Re: a comment on Lorca: Canción del Jinete by Sasha	25-May-04/9:00 PM
A poem is not a thesis. Zhukovsky, Pushkin, Rilke, Pasternak, Mallarmé, and, to a certain extent, Virgil all "plagiarised" off of someone else's poetry. The work that resulted was still their own
Re: a comment on Lorca: Canción del Jinete by Sasha	25-May-04/8:57 PM
the same thing that wounded the rider. The idea is that the riders blood stained the mountain
Re: a comment on Lorca: Canción del Jinete by Sasha	25-May-04/8:29 PM
no mixing done here