And the days are not full enough
And the days are not full enough
And the nights are not full enough
And life slips by like a field mouse
Not shaking the grass.
— Ezra Pound
Hmmm…
Simply Being | Simple Being
And the days are not full enough
And the days are not full enough
And the nights are not full enough
And life slips by like a field mouse
Not shaking the grass.
— Ezra Pound
Hmmm…
hollowandempty says:
…that’s so sad
September 27, 2004 — 2:23 pm
Lakshmi says:
If you are in the dumps, the poem serves to make you feel worse, I agree…:-)
September 27, 2004 — 2:44 pm
tomlinsonian says:
In my experience…
those who are not capable of intense sorrow are not capable of experiencing uplifting joy either.
So the dumps are my price, my ticket to the joy ride
September 27, 2004 — 2:59 pm
Lakshmi says:
Re: In my experience…
Amen…:-)
September 27, 2004 — 4:32 pm
tomlinsonian says:
beautiful…
really beautiful….
not all that is doleful is unhappy, what say locks???
(All i know about Erza Pound is that she was Hemingway’s friend)..If you haven’t read it, read The Movable feast.
(something i forget), it’s as if a young man died for no reason at all..
September 27, 2004 — 2:35 pm
Lakshmi says:
Re: beautiful…
Doleful IS not unhappy but it sure is an undesirable state! Don’t you think so? A state of *non-movement* is NOT ennui, though… My gyaan for the day, sorry…:-)
What is The Movable Feast? A poem, a story…..?
September 27, 2004 — 2:43 pm
tomlinsonian says:
Re: beautiful…
Hmm, no arguing with wisdom:D
The Movable feast is Hemingway’s biographical novel (of sorts)of the time he was a poor student in Paris..
If you are lucky to have lived in paris when you are young, you will carry it around with you, for Paris is a movable feast.
The smoke stacks from the boats would bend when them come to the bridges…
I was feeling sad, and …then I ate some oysters, and drank some wine, and did’nt feel so bad anymore.
(sorry, paraphrase..long time since I read it.If you have seen City of Angels, this book is the one her reads out to her from.)
September 27, 2004 — 2:55 pm
Lakshmi says:
Re: beautiful…
Lovely…. But I am sure that that can be an apt description for any city you love… what do you think?
September 27, 2004 — 4:34 pm
tomlinsonian says:
Re: beautiful…
true enough..but there are few who can write with that kind of passion when you are hungry, cold and un-employed…
just reminds me why I hold hemingway in such esteem….
and well..i agree with your take on Floyd…its true, especially if you know Erza Pound.
September 27, 2004 — 4:41 pm
Lakshmi says:
Re: beautiful…
*confused*
What’s Ezra Pound got to do with Floyd?
September 27, 2004 — 4:45 pm
tomlinsonian says:
Re: beautiful…
no no..you said floyd is far darker, and this one is just ennui…..
goes with what i know of erza pound..she was the mother figure, full of vitality…the meeting center for all young and starving artists in paris…
September 27, 2004 — 5:01 pm
Lakshmi says:
Re: beautiful…
Sorry for the digression, Manu… isn’t her name EZra and not ERza? You’ve been using ‘Erza’ so consistently that I thought I might ask you…:-)
I’ll look up The Moving Feast in the library….
September 27, 2004 — 5:05 pm
tomlinsonian says:
Re: beautiful…
sorry locks…i am linguistically challenged…
I’ve run around for at least 15 years claiming there were little things in water called agale that fish ate…..and that ambudence and appaulse are words…
so you will forgive me, I was thoroughly wrong ..I believe its because i read so fast that sometimes, its the combination of letters that sink in rather than the word itself.
And do, if you like his style, you’ll like this book..and I do remember this being on your DD list.
😉
September 27, 2004 — 5:17 pm
tomlinsonian says:
Re: beautiful…
sinks, not sink.
September 27, 2004 — 5:20 pm
Lakshmi says:
Re: beautiful…
What is on my DD list??!!
I identify with the *speed-reading* funda; I am trying HARD to work it out of my system. God, it’s the curse for book lovers like me…:-(
September 28, 2004 — 6:14 am
Lakshmi says:
Re: beautiful…
Ok, you’re referring to Paris, I guess.
September 28, 2004 — 6:14 am
Anonymous says:
She?
http://www.mala.bc.ca/~lanes/english/hemngway/pound.htm
September 27, 2004 — 8:58 pm
tomlinsonian says:
Re: She?
please, you will allow me to delete this thread!??????????
:))
hmmm..have to read it now..have to…
who the blazes was i thinking of???
September 27, 2004 — 9:18 pm
Lakshmi says:
Re: She?
That’s right..:-)
I wondered briefly if Ezra Pound was a woman but you were so confident that I gave you the benefit of the doubt..:-))
September 28, 2004 — 6:35 am
trycatchdenz says:
Don`t know why – but on reading these lines, the mind races to Floyd…
Cheerz,
Denz
September 27, 2004 — 4:27 pm
Lakshmi says:
Oh no, Denz… Floyd is far darker, don’t you think? These lines, I feel, are an expression of ennui, inactivity, boredom? Floyd, on the other hand, expresses intense sentiment. My take entirely….:-)
Art is, above all things, open to interpretation!
September 27, 2004 — 4:36 pm
thefirstidiot says:
Don’t know…most people associate floyd with dark sentiments. I take it both ways. Although I rarely listen to the lyrics though.
Alice in Chains is one group that gets me down…dark dark dark.
September 27, 2004 — 10:52 pm
shivshanker says:
hmm… that’s right. alice in chains seems dark. of what i’ve heard at least. there’s this one called whale and wasp. the guitar really wails in that one. sounds are surprsingly sunny AND dark. a line in ‘no excuses’ goes ‘… leave our rain, a cold trade for warm sunshine’.
floyd is beautiful…
September 27, 2004 — 11:29 pm
Lakshmi says:
Like I told a friend of mine once, everyone has this ‘Floyd’ phase in his/her life when everything and ANYTHING that Floyd says seems to find resonance in one’s own existence. Wow! Floyd speaks my language, knows my pain entirely….:-)
But it blows over and then one starts taking real pleasure in the music…. atleast that’s been my experience and I can vouch for the fact that it’s not a unique one!
September 28, 2004 — 6:16 am
trycatchdenz says:
Amen to that…
Cheerz,
Denz
September 28, 2004 — 4:31 pm
trycatchdenz says:
Well – I tend to disagree on that. The above poem is DARK (to my interpretation at least) and *I* infer the poet is not talking of inactivity or boredom – not in the last 2 lines…
But then again, as you said – poems are open to interpretation…
And that reminds me where are the “minstrels”…
Cheerz,
Denz
September 28, 2004 — 4:39 pm
Lakshmi says:
I keep posting stuff here.. But if you want, I can send you some too..:-)
September 28, 2004 — 8:34 pm
trycatchdenz says:
I mean why did you stop in the first place. Continue those mails, plz…
Will send you a mail…
Cheerz,
Denz
September 29, 2004 — 3:00 pm
fugney says:
This is weird. I finally understood a poem.
September 28, 2004 — 6:50 am
Lakshmi says:
Congrats.. and here’s hoping you *get* more of them…:-)
September 28, 2004 — 8:34 pm
fugney says:
here’s hoping you *get* more of them..
You mean that’s somewhat of a technical impossibility?
September 29, 2004 — 2:28 am
Lakshmi says:
Not at all.. sometimes the sentiment doesn’t strike you. Sometimes the imagery doesn’t resound in your mind. Sometimes it strikes you as pure drivel. Don’t worry if you don’t *get* any poem. There’re a million others that you’ll love…:-)
Watch my posts…:-)
September 29, 2004 — 6:32 am
fugney says:
The problem is bigger… I don’t get any poem.
September 29, 2004 — 6:42 am
Lakshmi says:
I have another friend who also *suffers* from this ‘I don’t get any poem’ syndrome. No fear, my dear… help is here!
Frankly, there is no problem. Different poems mean differently to different people and there you go, the case rests. Whatever strikes you is your own interpretation and that’s all that is to it. Serious…
September 29, 2004 — 6:50 am
fugney says:
Ok…. so if you think it means something and the poet meant it to be something else, isn’t that irritating to the poet?
September 29, 2004 — 7:52 am
Lakshmi says:
Well, the poet is completely aware of the fact, I guess. That all that he/she writes is open to interpretation and that’s the price one pays as an artist, I suppose. The risk of being misunderstood… don’t we have enough examples of that?
September 29, 2004 — 8:02 am
trycatchdenz says:
The risk of being misunderstood…
Well that is true of software specifications and programs too 🙂
Cheerz,
Denz
September 29, 2004 — 3:04 pm