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Originally Posted by Xanthe
Reading that obituary, there's sure to be a biography in the works from someone. What a sad final life.
I always regret that I just don't seem to "get" the poetic form. I can read it and understand the meaning expressed, but I always get thrown by the lack of prose format. I lament that lack within myself because it means that rarely read poetry.
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Originally Posted by Prestidigitweeze
I appreciate your honesty in saying that poetry is a form you haven't quite understood, Xanthe. Thanks for being willing to own that.
I feel that way about ballet. I can watch it and be interested, but I don't feel zi understanding the technical/formal aspects even after talking to at least four choreographer friends.
Many readers would blame the poets themselves and call their work "elitist" instead of recognizing limits of their own understanding, which are actually gaps that can be filled and not evidence of anyone's incapacity (any more than they're proof of unpretentiousness).
And I do hope that someone writes a bio of Rosemary Tonks. At the very least, there should be an edition of her collected poems.
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Personally I much prefer the "old poets" of rhyme and song. I think modern poets are too lazy and undisciplined at best to write a reasonable poem and at worse are just pretenders or hacks.
This lady you speak of Prestidigitweeze, thought by wit, daring and will alone she could make her way, and was unable to resolve the rigors of the world's cruel reality with her early choices, and so what had been a binary person "flip-flopped" in the engineering sense.
None of us can be young, vital, beautiful and headstrong forever. Only the last choice seemed to remain for her.
Rip...