Comments on: More on Memorial Day, or a few grains of poetry from Hopkins http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerkimball/2008/05/27/more-on-memorial-day-or-a-few-grains-of-poetry-from-hopkins/ Sat, 21 Nov 2009 15:46:47 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Alex Bensky http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerkimball/2008/05/27/more-on-memorial-day-or-a-few-grains-of-poetry-from-hopkins/comment-page-1/#comment-1981 Alex Bensky Wed, 04 Jun 2008 21:28:29 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerkimball/2008/05/27/more-on-memorial-day-or-a-few-grains-of-poetry-from-hopkins/#comment-1981 I am much more middlebrow; what I thought of was: "Oh it's Tommy this and Tommy that and 'chuck him out, the brute,' But it's 'savior of his country' when the guns begin to shoot." I am much more middlebrow; what I thought of was:

“Oh it’s Tommy this and Tommy that and ‘chuck him out, the brute,’
But it’s ’savior of his country’ when the guns begin to shoot.”

]]> By: Cristina http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerkimball/2008/05/27/more-on-memorial-day-or-a-few-grains-of-poetry-from-hopkins/comment-page-1/#comment-1945 Cristina Wed, 28 May 2008 02:30:55 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerkimball/2008/05/27/more-on-memorial-day-or-a-few-grains-of-poetry-from-hopkins/#comment-1945 Roger, You're too tough on the blog medium, of which you partake so splendidly. You know perfectly well that in the better blogs, however time- and-novelty bound, themes are set or emerge that are discussed earnestly, dissected, split hairs obssesively, in a give-and-take, often highly charged, revealing and subjective, that's a no-no in other venues. (Many of these bloggers hit the books in after-hours, and then the cycle begins again). At an MLA conference you can get away with almost anything, however idiotic or ignorant(unlike in the field of hard science). The protocols and limitations are forbidding, and the challenges are rare and meek--no wonder since most of the audience are people in search of a job. The medium iteself imposes a subjection to those presented as "authorities" by simply being members of a panel. There's no reason I can see poets of Hopkins' depth and difficulty won't be finding their way in the inquisitive and thinking blogs, an army of "nerds" with scientific background, ready to solve linguistic, poetic and Jesuit puzzles and, less openly, smitten with the poetry's beauty and emotion, fresh, unadultareted by ideology. Roger,
You’re too tough on the blog medium, of which you partake so splendidly. You know perfectly well that in the better blogs, however time- and-novelty bound, themes are set or emerge that are discussed earnestly, dissected, split hairs obssesively, in a give-and-take, often highly charged, revealing and subjective, that’s a no-no in other venues. (Many of these bloggers hit the books in after-hours, and then the cycle begins again).
At an MLA conference you can get away with almost anything, however idiotic or ignorant(unlike in the field of hard science). The protocols and limitations are forbidding, and the challenges are rare and meek–no wonder since most of the audience are people in search of a job. The medium iteself imposes a subjection to those presented as “authorities” by simply being members of a panel.

There’s no reason I can see poets of Hopkins’ depth and difficulty won’t be finding their way in the inquisitive and thinking blogs, an army of “nerds” with scientific background, ready to solve linguistic, poetic and Jesuit puzzles and, less openly, smitten with the poetry’s beauty and emotion, fresh, unadultareted by ideology.

]]> By: Paul http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerkimball/2008/05/27/more-on-memorial-day-or-a-few-grains-of-poetry-from-hopkins/comment-page-1/#comment-1933 Paul Tue, 27 May 2008 21:02:02 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerkimball/2008/05/27/more-on-memorial-day-or-a-few-grains-of-poetry-from-hopkins/#comment-1933 The closing lines of Hopkins's Speing and Fall are terrifyingly lovely. I have misused them for other purposes (but with proper attribution) in the form, It is the blight man was born for It is ourselves we must mourn for. The closing lines of Hopkins’s Speing and Fall are terrifyingly lovely. I have misused them for other purposes (but with proper attribution) in the form,

It is the blight man was born for
It is ourselves we must mourn for.

]]> By: Pinkie Ann LeBrainne http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerkimball/2008/05/27/more-on-memorial-day-or-a-few-grains-of-poetry-from-hopkins/comment-page-1/#comment-1931 Pinkie Ann LeBrainne Tue, 27 May 2008 18:19:47 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerkimball/2008/05/27/more-on-memorial-day-or-a-few-grains-of-poetry-from-hopkins/#comment-1931 Why are you surprised that Google would choose to ignore our most solemn civil holiday? It's not like we don't know who and what Google is. Why are you surprised that Google would choose to ignore our most solemn civil holiday? It’s not like we don’t know who and what Google is.

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