There is a poem in the back of a play or anthology or somesuch of Shakespeare’s work, that basically says something like ‘If his face was as beautiful as his writing… something something something… unfortunately it isn’t.’
Ach. If you know it you will know it. It basically says ‘look, the guy is ugly as hell, but he’s still pretty awesome, eh?’.
Any ideas?
Wow… cool answer. Unfortunately its not what I’m looking for – there was a poem written by a contemporary of Shakespeare, about him.
Poet/critic Robert Greene hated Shakespeare. His most famous lines are
"There is an upstart Crow, beautiful in our feathers, that, with his tiger’s heart wrapt in a player’s hide, supposes he is as well able to bombast out a blank verse as the best of you, and, being an absolute Johannes Factotum, is, in his own conceit, the only Shakescene in the country. Oh, that I might entreat your rare wits to be employed in more profitable courses, and let these apes imitate your past excellence, and never more acquaint them with your admired inventions."
The poem ‘Summer Woods ‘ is included in the 2nd section entitled "The Flowering Year" of Sarojini Naidu’s 3rd Anthology of Poems.
I didn’t find it anywhere on internet.I need it free on online.Pls help.
I found many other poems and its details.
bUT NOT THIS PARTICULAR POEM
I do not know if this will help.
http://www.archive.org/stream/gatheredgrace029041mbp/gatheredgrace029041mbp_djvu.txt
You must seek and find.
My best suggestion is that if you are interested in this writer you just might want to by the book.
Good Luck.
Sam
for english
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A.) Nature’s Anthology Book
B.) Nature’s Poetry Anthology Poetry Book
C.) The Anthology Poetry Book of Nature
D.) something else….
How about just simply naming it "Nature’s Poetry" I don’t see why anthology book needs to be in the title at all. So D is my answer, and so you will name it Nature’s Poetry or even Poetry from Nature
what’s the name of the poem?
I LOVE Nikki Giovanni! This is a poem I fell in love with years ago entitled, “Ego Tripping
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PLEASE HELP i need an example or 2 of a monosyllabic poem PLEASE HELP!
http://www.petercollingwood.co.uk/poem_2.htm
Here’s one.
One of my favorite poems by Marianne Williamson, “Our Deepest Fear” is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are POWERFUL BEYOND MEASURE…
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Um, I’m a little nervous with actually sharing my own stuff with total strangers…or having it critiqued. Basically, I read a lot of Fantasy, and the poem is supposed to have a innocent, whimsical tone to it. I was thinking about submitting it to an anthology, but I’m not sure?
Thanks.
Pleiades
Do you remember the night
when we sat together looking
down from the stars.
When I finally told you
that I had no real magic
of my own;
that I was just a
normal girl after all.
And you smiled and
said that we
had better be getting
down then.
You took my hand and
helped me so that I
wouldn’t trip over the
moonbeams.
SUBMIT!!!!
SUBMIT!!!!
Did you know I have a 90,000 word novel that I’m just SITTING ON because I don’t have the balls to let an industry professional look at it?
SUBMIT!!!
The worst that can happen is that they’ll send you a form letter that says, "We are sorry to inform you that your material does not meet our current needs."
The best would be that they would publish you, and YOU WOULD BE ON YOUR WAY!
I’m not a big poetry guy, but I found the sentiments of your poem charming and bittersweet. It beats the shit out of a lot of the stuff people post here.
SUBMIT!!!!
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I would star this, but I’m not sure you want the R&S smartass attention. But you already know how I feel about your writing…
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I’m going to respectfully disagree with Idyllic Scribe. ‘real magic of my own’ works for me. It alludes to the existence of true magic and illusory magic. The person in the poem is acknowledging that ‘real’ magic exists and that a sort of illusory magic also exists. And that while she may possess the illusory sort, and while she may experience the true sort, she does not believe she possesses the true magic within herself. (I’m obviously reading this poem to be a female speaking to a man)
At the same time, She IS experiencing true magic, or how else would she be up among the stars? The man seems to possess the real magic, in the eyes of the woman in the poem (to me, anyway) because he is the one who leads her back down to earth, who holds her hand and guides her back down.
so I felt that eliminating the phrase ‘real magic of my own’ would actually harm the romantic quality of the poem. It would simplify it and rob it of some of the melancholy undertone.
Just my opinion, of course.
Definitely "Anne Rutledge". Makes somebody almost unknown real, in her love for somebody very known.