Fav. Poems

[Biggles]

I'd be worried if i was you ....

Not too keen on that poem - more of a poem to shock people i think

It was at the tail end of his life - I think he was just having a bit of fun rather than trying to shock. As is the way old folk get.

[Gemby!]

you wouldn't know, being so young yourself ....

[Biggles]

you wouldn't know, being so young yourself ....

I find myself strangely warming to you Gemby.

[Gemby!]

I'm a charmer

[MCHeshPants420]

As Larkin seems to be popular, one of SGGs favourites (what is she trying to say? )

This Be The Verse

They fuck you up, your mum and dad.
They may not mean to, but they do.
They fill you with the faults they had
And add some extra, just for you.

But they were fucked up in their turn
By fools in old-style hats and coats,
Who half the time were soppy-stern
And half at one another's throats.

Man hands on misery to man.
It deepens like a coastal shelf.
Get out as early as you can,
And don't have any kids yourself.

--Philip Larkin (1974)

I had a lecture with this poem featuring last week and can't remember what we learned about it...something about the title.

Time to read my "notes".

Edit: Probably my favourite Larkin poem though, now I think about it.

[trajillo]

Yeah

[chalice]

Philip Larkin - Annus Mirabilis

Sexual intercourse began
In nineteen sixty-three
(which was rather late for me) -
Between the end of the Chatterley ban
And the Beatles' first LP.

Up to then there'd only been
A sort of bargaining,
A wrangle for the ring,
A shame that started at sixteen
And spread to everything.

Then all at once the quarrel sank:
Everyone felt the same,
And every life became
A brilliant breaking of the bank,
A quite unlosable game.

So life was never better than
In nineteen sixty-three
(Though just too late for me) -
Between the end of the Chatterley ban
And the Beatles' first LP.

[Djtima]

traj watches one movie about poets or poetry one of the two and hes hooked like a arab on kababs...

[Yogi]

But what a movie that is...............

[trajillo]

DEAD POETS SOCIETY.... 10/10 anyone here who watched it would agree