Comments on: The One Hundred Poem Project http://bloglily.com/2007/04/07/the-one-hundred-poem-project/ "it must give pleasure" -- Wallace Stevens Thu, 06 Oct 2011 01:38:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Max http://bloglily.com/2007/04/07/the-one-hundred-poem-project/#comment-6176 Sun, 15 Apr 2007 21:34:40 +0000 http://bloglily.com/2007/04/07/the-one-hundred-poem-project/#comment-6176 I love reading the poems other people love. Why do you love these particularly? Do you have good memories associated with them, or do you simply think that as works of poetry they are outstanding in form or depiction? I can’t wait to see what else makes your top 100 poems.

]]> By: Nancy Ruth http://bloglily.com/2007/04/07/the-one-hundred-poem-project/#comment-6083 Fri, 13 Apr 2007 13:16:08 +0000 http://bloglily.com/2007/04/07/the-one-hundred-poem-project/#comment-6083 In the fall I wrote a review of a book about Elizabeth Bishop and so got to study her in a way I had never done before. But this poem had escaped my notice. So thanks.

]]> By: Melanie http://bloglily.com/2007/04/07/the-one-hundred-poem-project/#comment-6061 Thu, 12 Apr 2007 21:19:57 +0000 http://bloglily.com/2007/04/07/the-one-hundred-poem-project/#comment-6061 I love “Sunday Morning”. It was a poem I had to recite from memory as part of my final exam for a “poetry & religion” class in university. I only really recall the first two sections these days, but especially the lines in the second stanza – up to “these are the measures destined for her soul” – are some of my favourite lines of poetry ever. I’m so glad you find it as striking.

]]> By: Kristin Ohlson http://bloglily.com/2007/04/07/the-one-hundred-poem-project/#comment-5993 Tue, 10 Apr 2007 23:25:06 +0000 http://bloglily.com/2007/04/07/the-one-hundred-poem-project/#comment-5993 Wonderful post, BL. Coming upon it just turned my day in a different direction.

]]> By: SS http://bloglily.com/2007/04/07/the-one-hundred-poem-project/#comment-5985 Tue, 10 Apr 2007 19:22:00 +0000 http://bloglily.com/2007/04/07/the-one-hundred-poem-project/#comment-5985 Loved the Jarman poem–loved it.

]]> By: bloglily http://bloglily.com/2007/04/07/the-one-hundred-poem-project/#comment-5939 Mon, 09 Apr 2007 14:40:12 +0000 http://bloglily.com/2007/04/07/the-one-hundred-poem-project/#comment-5939 Hello (and welcome!) Terrilyn, I do love that poem. It’s very evocative of both its own time and place, and the time and place in which I first encountered it. Most poems are like that, in fact.

My dear Smokey, It comes from Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction — the three parts of which are titled “it must change” “it must be abstract” and “it must give pleasure.” But not in the order, I think, although I haven’t checked lately. In his letters, Stevens would sometimes tell another, younger poet how much pleasure their work gave him. And you knew, from his work, that this was the highest of praise.

Fencer, For Bishop, finding both love and tragedy in Brazil, the answer to that is not so clear. And that’s why people write, I think — to figure out how they feel about things like that.

Dear Cam, It’s such a great poem. There are some lines in there about death being the mother of beauty that I particularly like — Stevens was very interested in what you do in a world where it’s not possible for god to exist anymore, and one answer is the life-affirming notion that when we know that there is a final ending to things, we live our lives differently, more richly.

]]> By: Cam http://bloglily.com/2007/04/07/the-one-hundred-poem-project/#comment-5916 Mon, 09 Apr 2007 03:31:41 +0000 http://bloglily.com/2007/04/07/the-one-hundred-poem-project/#comment-5916 A voice that cries: “The tomb in Palestine /
Is not the porch of spirits lingering; /
It is the grave of Jesus, where he lay.” has been repeating in my mind since I first read your post yesterday. The porch of lingering spirits — what a concept — and its antithesis: the empty tomb. Just wow!

]]> By: fencer http://bloglily.com/2007/04/07/the-one-hundred-poem-project/#comment-5908 Sun, 08 Apr 2007 17:59:35 +0000 http://bloglily.com/2007/04/07/the-one-hundred-poem-project/#comment-5908 I like Questions of Travel a lot and it poses a question I’ve asked myself too…
Thanks for the poems!

Regards

]]> By: smokey http://bloglily.com/2007/04/07/the-one-hundred-poem-project/#comment-5890 Sun, 08 Apr 2007 02:01:32 +0000 http://bloglily.com/2007/04/07/the-one-hundred-poem-project/#comment-5890 That’s a great blog idea to give a few lines of poems you like. I was at a workshop today and guoted your Wallace Stevens line as a test for whether one is enjoying writing (anything), but I forget where “It must give pleasure” comes from. And too lazy to check. But I know it’s on the tip of you tongue and fingers, or more likely in the very ink of your pen, if you don’t mind.

]]> By: Outta Me, Onto You http://bloglily.com/2007/04/07/the-one-hundred-poem-project/#comment-5884 Sat, 07 Apr 2007 21:32:22 +0000 http://bloglily.com/2007/04/07/the-one-hundred-poem-project/#comment-5884 [...] Favorite Poems Saturday April 07th 2007, 4:32 pm Filed under: poetry Bloglily has a 100 Poem Project, which I think is such a great idea. I look forward to seeing what she posts and, inspired, I [...]

]]> By: terrilynn http://bloglily.com/2007/04/07/the-one-hundred-poem-project/#comment-5883 Sat, 07 Apr 2007 21:22:16 +0000 http://bloglily.com/2007/04/07/the-one-hundred-poem-project/#comment-5883 That Mark Jarman poem is just flat-out wonderful. I may have to post it at my place, too, just so I’ll remember it.

]]> By: bloglily http://bloglily.com/2007/04/07/the-one-hundred-poem-project/#comment-5882 Sat, 07 Apr 2007 21:10:49 +0000 http://bloglily.com/2007/04/07/the-one-hundred-poem-project/#comment-5882 Yes, that’s a wonderful line. I’ve been remembering and searching for that poem for years and years. And then yesterday at work I put “ravel it up like a wave” and Jarman and there it was. Of the many great things about this time in which we live, the fact that you can get your hands on a remembered poem like this one is among the greatest.

]]> By: (un)relaxeddad http://bloglily.com/2007/04/07/the-one-hundred-poem-project/#comment-5881 Sat, 07 Apr 2007 20:54:53 +0000 http://bloglily.com/2007/04/07/the-one-hundred-poem-project/#comment-5881 I love the deadpan “She must remember that summer//Somewhat differently” from No. 91. And I just read the whole of Sunday Morning. Promise I’ll read it again tomorrow! I really must read Elizabeth Bishop. (Oh boy, another one for the list…)

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