3/17/2023 0 Comments For another day the anacrusis![]() ![]() Heard the flying feet of the Loves behind her\rĪs the thunder flung from the strong unclosing\rīefore I get swept away by the passion and beauty of this passage, I first have to ask myself, is it the "implacable" Aphrodite's "feet" which "shine as fire of sunset" and do they do so because the feet are "unsandalled?" Or is it the "hair unbound" which "shines as fire on sunset on western waters?" \r ![]() Looking always, looking with necks reverted,\rīack to Lesbos, back to the hills whereunder\r Shine as fire of sunset on western waters \rįeet, the straining plumes of the doves that drew her,\r Saw the hair unbound and the feet unsandalled\r Perhaps this makes you weep, I don't know. This proves my point-at least to my satisfaction. If aught, in her absence, could please.\rĪnd where are her grots and her bow'rs?\r Will a nymph that is fond of the plain,\r Who could rob a poor bird of its young:\r I have found where the wood-pigeons breed:\rįor he ne'er could be true, she aver'd,\r How the nightingales warble their loves\r One would think she might like to retire\rįrom the plains, from the woodlands and groves,\r Not my fields, in the prime of the year,\r Anyway, hope it helps.\rĪnd my hills are white-over with sheep.\rīut with tendrils of woodbine is bound:\r This is definitely a bit older, but I really like some of what ol' Bill did here. ![]() Perhaps equally well-known would be this poem-song that slips back and forth between amphibrachs and anapests:\r realign into its rhyming meter):\rĪs for amphibrachs, one of the most popular ballads of our time is in almost perfect amphibrachs:\r This concrete elegy is written in anapests and might be an interesting challenge for students to decurginate (i.e. You mentioned that you'd like a few contemporary examples. He is said to have been impressed at the time (the 1940s) by the critical sophistication of some of the students and then increasingly exasperated to find how tenuous was the link between their analytical smartness and any personal feelings.\rĪlas, today we seem to have the opposite problem. ![]()
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