tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-298334170177578638.post6820798739748050886..comments2023-11-21T13:48:03.338+13:00Comments on Tuesday Poem: Love by Eavan BolandUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-298334170177578638.post-49216148889774747702010-06-30T14:43:48.879+12:002010-06-30T14:43:48.879+12:00A wonderful poem - full of wonders.
Thanks for po...A wonderful poem - full of wonders.<br /><br />Thanks for posting this, John.Tim Joneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14856414700019368658noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-298334170177578638.post-58358820701125803242010-06-30T09:32:28.733+12:002010-06-30T09:32:28.733+12:00I'm with you on that, Mim. They seem too famil...I'm with you on that, Mim. They seem too familiar after the Amish table and the hero with image blazing and the ascension of love (a him) ... perhaps these lines feel even a touch melodramatic? I put them aside on my first reading - blown away by the wonderful combination of the mythical and the 'plain speaking'. For me the line that gave me goosebumps is not the love with feather andMary McCallumhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07482261103185786111noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-298334170177578638.post-12444157093204468442010-06-30T07:40:54.026+12:002010-06-30T07:40:54.026+12:00I also admire "love had the feather and muscl...I also admire "love had the feather and muscle of wings,"--fierce memory-- and while I accept the nostalgia, the concluding two lines are not to my taste.Mimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13039776441665375475noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-298334170177578638.post-30308346464268081142010-06-29T09:19:17.060+12:002010-06-29T09:19:17.060+12:00I love Eavan Boland's poetry - she isn't a...I love Eavan Boland's poetry - she isn't as well known as she should be, even in Britain. But when I read her, she taps into some pretty deep places. She's written some good prose too, a series of autobiographical essays called Object Lessons: Women Writing outside History. I reviewed it, with her latest collection, on my bookblog www.kathleenjonesdiary.blogspot.com<br />Thanks Kathleen Joneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07645566938871914385noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-298334170177578638.post-41935423229833933062010-06-29T08:12:39.291+12:002010-06-29T08:12:39.291+12:00Jo has beaten me to it, but when I read:
"/...Jo has beaten me to it, but when I read: <br /><br />"/And we discovered there/<br />love had the feather and muscle of wings/ and had come to live with us,/<br />a brother of fire and air."<br /><br />I was definitely going: omg, to write lines like that!<br /><br />A very powerful poem with those shadings of transience and mortality.Helen Lowehttp://helenlowe.info/blog/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-298334170177578638.post-52544372049553081572010-06-29T07:43:28.148+12:002010-06-29T07:43:28.148+12:00Glorious poem, and sent me back to my bookcase to ...Glorious poem, and sent me back to my bookcase to get her Selected down to read again.<br />Even Beckett would come alive for a line like<i> “love had the feather and muscle of wings”</i>!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-298334170177578638.post-81682871201955009532010-06-29T07:05:49.372+12:002010-06-29T07:05:49.372+12:00Thank you John - it is a powerful poem indeed - th...Thank you John - it is a powerful poem indeed - the plain speaking combined with myth - epic, intimate. Wonderful that you've brought an Irish feminist poet to Tuesday Poem.Mary McCallumhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07482261103185786111noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-298334170177578638.post-78191084233318875762010-06-29T03:17:57.366+12:002010-06-29T03:17:57.366+12:00john, this makes me ache for the idea of love.
tha...john, this makes me ache for the idea of love.<br />thank you,<br />susansusan t. landryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12454487318141469849noreply@blogger.com