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  • As You Like It Act II scv (In the forest)

    Sung in two parts: Amiens 'stanzo' one and all [Jaques, Amiens & friends] sing stanza two. The Arden Forest is the pastoral escape where courtly people learn true values. It is not Edenic (there is an 'old' Adam emblematic of that). In this song by Amiens life is pleasantly rural yet even here there are "winter and rough weather".
    Lovely poem in the context of the Bard's famous comedy of manners.

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    You are very informative and an asset to this site. Ron.

  • on Winter Uplands by Archibald Lampman, on February 19, 2008
    Written in his late thirties, Lampman's sonnet is beautifully progressed from frost, snow, ground views, the open sky of stars then moon: such a sense of spaciousness and a hint of loved desolation. Substitution of the regular iambic pentameter to advasntagefor above all, poetry, especially like this, is meant to be heard. Lyndon.

  • on The Truth by Archibald Lampman, on January 27, 2008

    Very philosophical.

    My favorite line is:
    "He that sees clear is gentlest of his words".