tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6694880585491590788.post5276524621806611515..comments2024-03-26T23:45:35.573-04:00Comments on Typings: The Unknown Citizenreesehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15818057262934008241noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6694880585491590788.post-38116877560429969672021-11-22T12:17:50.265-05:002021-11-22T12:17:50.265-05:00I'm pretty fond of Auden over all and Septembe...I'm pretty fond of Auden over all and September 1 is definitely one of the best. Did you see the book about it by Ian Sansom a couple of years ago? I can't say that I particularly recommend it, but it did have some interesting stuff about the poem. (The rest was sort of bibliomemoir and less interesting though that was the reason it got mass release, I'm sure.)<br /><br />I'm sure the clunkiness of the lines in this are there to match the subject--they work for me--it's the voice of some insidious panoptic government authority after all. One would expect clunkiness, maybe even hope for it. And some of the rhymes are funny: Inc./drink<br /><br />Auden is often divided into early and late, with early being seen as more lyrical and late more academ-icky. I like them both, but I have certain fussy academic credentials myself. But I find his early stuff especially pretty lyrical, though resistant to simple euphony--well, he's probably close enough to Tennyson & Swinburne to still feel the need to resist that sort of thing. <br /><br />But then I like the later stuff too--I'm especially fond of Under Sirius with its extravagant vocabulary, sneaky rhymes, and sprung rhythms. I find it quite musical in its way.reesehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15818057262934008241noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6694880585491590788.post-44152377966200554412021-11-22T09:34:04.669-05:002021-11-22T09:34:04.669-05:00I think I may understand you. See below.I think I may understand you. See below.Philliphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07829053219715458764noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6694880585491590788.post-9409148841779209922021-11-22T09:33:22.681-05:002021-11-22T09:33:22.681-05:00September First 1939 is one of my favorite poems, ...September First 1939 is one of my favorite poems, and never fails to move me to tears when I read it aloud, as I have done innumerable times. Yet in most of Auden's poetry, I get the sense of a poet who had only a weak natural sense of euphony, for which the fussy formalism may have been an unconscious overcompensation. Here I suppose the lines are deliberately of variable length, but the effect is no less clunky and unlovely for that.Philliphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07829053219715458764noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6694880585491590788.post-17746223522252150362021-11-19T00:57:32.804-05:002021-11-19T00:57:32.804-05:00He's good!He's good!reesehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15818057262934008241noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6694880585491590788.post-66206301189049554132021-11-18T23:10:34.100-05:002021-11-18T23:10:34.100-05:00I am with Lark. I need to read more of him. I am with Lark. I need to read more of him. Neeruhttps://ahotcupofpleasureagain.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6694880585491590788.post-33878740966163903922021-11-18T19:52:16.939-05:002021-11-18T19:52:16.939-05:00I think he's pretty good. But some of them are...I think he's pretty good. But some of them are more serious than the ones I've been using lately... ;-)reesehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15818057262934008241noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6694880585491590788.post-58525673815800976452021-11-18T16:33:26.659-05:002021-11-18T16:33:26.659-05:00I need to read more of Auden's poems!I need to read more of Auden's poems! Lark https://www.blogger.com/profile/13777891312147377769noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6694880585491590788.post-71858317772140722692021-11-18T16:29:41.061-05:002021-11-18T16:29:41.061-05:00Hmm...but it's so tempting to ask!Hmm...but it's so tempting to ask!reesehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15818057262934008241noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6694880585491590788.post-81705836155173616402021-11-18T15:50:52.591-05:002021-11-18T15:50:52.591-05:00reading this was rather like eating an orange with...reading this was rather like eating an orange with peanut butter... (don't ask, lol)mudpuddlehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16647084124715892324noreply@blogger.com