Sunday, May 12, 2013

Poetry and other Stuff! (2)

Poetry and other Stuff! (2)


Slane Co. Meath

Got back to this finally but only because I couldn't get youtube to load something. Make it simple again guys! Anyway I have to type now and what I was saying about "any other thoughts" on the Leaving Certificate Anthology (2010). Maybe they've changed it by now for all I know, but rather than the specific questions at the end, or as well as! Why not give them license for their own interpretation and mark accordingly. Might be more fun and allow for creative thinking or at least some degree of original thought without the prompt. Tommy brought William Carlos Williams's poem "The Red Wheelbarrow" into Dunshaughlin many years ago and asked for an interpretation or take on it and some of them were a lot longer than the wheelbarrow. I had a little fun with it and decided to dismantle, even though a wonderful invention! When you break something down and dismantle it you are not left with anything much unless it becomes something else and that includes analysis. A poem is a poem! Enough rambling for a Sunday. 

Barrows

I cannot see the sense
Why these machines of verse dispense,
In barrowed rows the obvious
The skeleton of prose.

A corpse of rhyme so still
They have such need for barrows
To cart the words
Uphill.

Frank Murphy.


2 comments:

Unknown said...

This is a very good poem. It scored 2.586 on the Poetry Assessor (http://115.146.95.34/poetry/)

Frank said...

Thanks for the comment Michael. Best regards. Have to look up that "Poetry Assessor".
FM.