Comments on: Mrs Darwin by Carol Ann Duffy

By: Megan

Megan — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 13:28:51 +0000

Can anyone tell me their thoughts of this poem.
About tone/mood and the background of it. How clever you think this poem is and what it insinuates. I just need different minds and interpretations :)

By: emerson

emerson — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 00:37:29 +0000

I really like Guardians, the lyrics are pretty. I listened to Richard Cory and that was great.

Really? I love the lyrics of This Tornado Loves You. Maybe if you listen to it you’ll like it better. I like how the song is kinda upbeat but the lyrics are quite dark. I also love the fact that she is the tornado, which is why I think it stand up as a poem for me.

By: rinabeana

rinabeana — Fri, 29 May 2009 00:20:48 +0000

I think that song lyrics can be poetic, but in general I don't post many song lyrics. The ones that spring to mind are Richard Cory by Paul Simon (based on a poem of the same title by Edwin Arlington Robinson) and Guardians by Adrienne Jones (recorded by Mad Agnes). I can't say that This Tornado Loves You really resonated with me, but I have never heard the musical version.

By: emerson

emerson — Thu, 28 May 2009 21:26:48 +0000

Some of those are really nice, others are not really my style, but I can see why people like them.
Do you have any songs on this site? I mentioned this to another poetry loving friend and he said that he had never thought of songs as poetry…I don’t really get why he wouldn’t. After all songs are just poems with notes.
I was wondering if you could do me a small favour? Read This Tornado Loves You by Neko Case, just read the lyrics and let me know what you think?

By: Vic

Vic — Wed, 27 May 2009 15:05:26 +0000

Clever. I like it.

By: rinabeana

rinabeana — Wed, 27 May 2009 09:58:27 +0000

Heavens! There are far too many to list... I love just about everything by Edna St. Vincent Millay, but some of my favorites are: Ebb, The Suicide, Interim, On Hearing a Symphony of Beethoven, and To a Friend Estranged from Me. Likewise, I think that Naomi Shihab Nye is amazing, but I especially love Famous, Kindness, Because of Libraries We Can Say These Things, and A Way Around. And some others, in no particular order. I could never have an exhaustive list, though… Eating Poetry by Mark Strand He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven by William Butler Yeats Friendship by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik Women's Novels by Margaret Atwood Funeral Blues by W.H. Auden One Art by Elizabeth Bishop Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll The Incentive by Sarah N. Cleghorn To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee by Emily Dickinson Mending Wall by Robert Frost Helen by H.D. O Cheese by Donald Hall Two Truths by Helen Hunt Jackson Permanently by Kenneth Koch A Winter's Tale by D.H. Lawrence Mezzo Camin by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Monody by Herman Melville An Athenian Reminisces by Vassar Miller The Highwayman by Alfred Noyes Wild Geese by Mary Oliver Emily Dickinson and Elvis Presley in Heaven by Hans Ostrom The Waking by Theodore Roethke Not marble, nor the gilded monuments by William Shakespeare Ozymandias and Stanzas Written in Dejection Near Naples by Percy Bysshe Shelley Old Friendship by Eunice Tietjens Exeunt by Richard Wilbur Let No Charitable Hope by Elinor Wylie

By: emerson

emerson — Wed, 27 May 2009 04:04:16 +0000

Well I hope so or I’m in trouble…
Can I ask what your favorite poems are?

By: rinabeana

rinabeana — Tue, 26 May 2009 22:52:19 +0000

I don’t really know much about copyright law. I post poems that are not in the public domain and I haven’t gotten busted (yet!). Perhaps for personal use it’s acceptable, as long as you’re not making money?

By: emerson

emerson — Tue, 26 May 2009 21:48:54 +0000

I don’t know if I’m restricted…it’s a private book so I didn’t even think about that.
Do you need permission if there’s just two copies? I’m not selling them or anything, just one for me and a backup.

By: rinabeana

rinabeana — Tue, 26 May 2009 09:12:07 +0000

That’s a neat idea. Are you restricted to poems in the public domain?

I definitely go back and reread my favorites through this site. My favorite aspect of posting a PotD is that I’m always finding new favorites!