[New-Poetry] Re: Rating the Housman

[Michael Snider]

Finnegan, I was too narrow as well. Just reminding us of some deep part of
our nature and our relation to the rest of the world, not necessarily in a
new way, but just returning it vividly to our minds, may be a lesser thing
than presenting "an old thing in a new way, from a different/overloked
angle/perspective," but it's no small beer, much  less failure.

On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 10:55 AM, <jforjames at aol.com> wrote:

> Mike,
> But do you think Houseman did in this case...that is, allow us to revisit a
> great common theme in a new way?
> I don't think he did. But I'd agree that my assertion was too narrow. It
> should have put it this way:
> Great poets see a new thing, an overlooked thing. Or they see an old thing
> in a new way, from a different/overloked angle/perspective.
> Finnegan
>
> Amid blossoming cherry
> I feel my years may be shortened.
> Let petals fall on me now.
> --A. E. Housman
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Snider <mandolin at mikesnider.org>
> Sent: Mon, 2 Feb 2009 8:50 pm
> Subject: Re: [New-Poetry] Re: Rating the Housman
>
> On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 7:44 PM, <jforjames at aol.com> wrote:
>
>>  (In the end, the great failure of the poem is that something
>> conventially seen as beautiful by about 99.9% of the population--cherry
>> trees in
>> bloom--is seen as beautiful and worth experiencing over and over by the
>> poet. The great poets tend to see as beautiful the things that other's might
>> overlook. A haiku poet would have done this poem in three lines, and saved
>> us209 more, pace the logic of the second stanza.)
>>
>
>  Finnegan, sometmes the great poets point to things the rest of us may
> overlook — and sometimes thy remind us of the great common themes of human
> life, in langauge that ,makes it new again.
>
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