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.