JennyLee at Old Poetry

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on To A Small Boy Standing On My Shoes While I Am Wearing Them by Ogden Nash, on January 4, 2005
Not my favorite Nash poem but it certainly shows his typical tongue-in-cheek cynicism. I loved the way he took everday situations and expanded them with wit and rhyme.

Jen
on Design by Robert Frost, on June 1, 2004
Yes, this one was much easier to understand (one of my standards for good poetry). I think frost used more specific word choices in the second version. Maybe his vocabulary was bigger. And yes Silica, it gives a young poet hope.

Jennifer
on Sonnet XVII: I do not love you as if you were brine-rose, topaz by Pablo Neruda, on May 26, 2004
I was to see this Old Poetry sonnet that doesn't exactly follow my vision of what a sonnet is. It had no rhyme and no iambic pentameter. Still, I know there are many sonnets written without those things and it was 14 lines. Of course too it was about love, the classic sonnet subject.

The poem was, I am sure, brilliant, but honestly didn't appeal to me that much. I did really like the line "I love you as certain dark things are to be loved," I'm just not a big love poem fan.

Jennifer
on Fuzzy-Wuzzy by Rudyard Kipling, on May 25, 2004
Thanks Silica, I truthfully couldn't make hide nor hair of this poem and was waiting for someone to illuminate me. Now I may precede on with my homework.

Jen