tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8641638.post112982318352268189..comments2023-06-17T04:25:51.988-04:00Comments on <center>Living Poetry</center>: Eric Beeny in 32 PoemsAmyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08754785071196846157noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8641638.post-1131356310207077602005-11-07T04:38:00.000-05:002005-11-07T04:38:00.000-05:00The simplicity of his writing style appeals to me....The simplicity of his writing style appeals to me. It's going on my (long) list of must reads. Thx, Amy!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8641638.post-1130164690446951352005-10-24T10:38:00.000-04:002005-10-24T10:38:00.000-04:00cool poems.cool poems.keedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16247048418094476365noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8641638.post-1130134541261578542005-10-24T02:15:00.000-04:002005-10-24T02:15:00.000-04:00it's really good. Amy your prac crit always amazes...it's really good. Amy your prac crit always amazes me. But somehow i feel that the metaphors and allusions are a bit overwhelming. =) Anyway, i'm still doing up my song. working up on the intro and a hopefully a bridge. =)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8641638.post-1130026811608189672005-10-22T20:20:00.000-04:002005-10-22T20:20:00.000-04:00Oh, I don't think the commandments just get swallo...Oh, I don't think the commandments just get swallowed -- I think they <I>have</I> to be chewed on, thought through thoroughly. And that how we live (how we chew them, those tablets of commandments) is how we'll be remembered (via headstones). <BR/><BR/>I wonder if he thought all this through when he wrote it or whether the writing process was more intuitive. Sometimes poems just "arrive" and we interpret them more closely after the fact.MBhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14515233228776181123noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8641638.post-1130005301195466272005-10-22T14:21:00.000-04:002005-10-22T14:21:00.000-04:00"headstones become chewable tablets..." is like te..."headstones become chewable tablets..." is like telling us that life is like a funeral that we take toward our own burial ground.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8641638.post-1129991442920540822005-10-22T10:30:00.000-04:002005-10-22T10:30:00.000-04:00Moose:Yes, the metaphor is much more complicated t...Moose:<BR/><BR/>Yes, the metaphor is much more complicated than it first appears. And I was just thinking about the headstone part--the idea of the commandments having to be "swallowed" like medicine.<BR/><BR/>Zoe:<BR/><BR/>Just think of all the wasted cotton. :-)Amyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08754785071196846157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8641638.post-1129910568622024002005-10-21T12:02:00.000-04:002005-10-21T12:02:00.000-04:00The clouds must be removed what a beautiful line, ...The clouds must be removed what a beautiful line, I always get mad at trying to take ouf the fluff from pill bottles will have to remember that line next time :-)Chic and Sassyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07803923544542957365noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8641638.post-1129827155227714402005-10-20T12:52:00.000-04:002005-10-20T12:52:00.000-04:00I find it interesting the way he starts with the w...I find it interesting the way he starts with the world as bottle of pills, but in the third stanza he speaks of the bottle of pills as world -- and back! It's a kind of backing-and-forthing through play on words that reinforces the equation.<BR/><BR/>Nice one!MBhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14515233228776181123noreply@blogger.com