Religion and Poetry

[amar]

Like Darwin I would like to make an effort.

I'll look into those books herbivore12 recommended.

fearfaoin, your examples were helpful---the way you explain your thought process that leads to your conclusion. I have that book, somewhere, and I know I "read" it, but I'd better look at it again. I think it is an interesting idea that if one does not respond to some poetry that does not mean one dislikes all poetry. It is not all the same. I'll have to think about that. I tend to read too fast, and this may be one of the problems. I have trouble slowing down when it is necessary. I have to stop myself at times when I sense that my eyes are going faster than my brain.

amar, that is a poem that I can like. BigDavy sent me a version sung by Davy Steele. It is pleasant to read but, for me, when it is sung it is just piercingly beautiful. It doesn't seem like it should be that way, but....

dubh, I have read a number of Thomas Hardy's novels and want to read them all again. Are you saying that after doing that, if I do a good job, I would be prepared to read his poetry? I'm not quite sure what you meant, although it was addressed to herbivore12. Or maybe you meant his poetry is a good place to start?The Adored.

the version by D.S. (davy steele, hahah..) is also my favourite. He was part of Ceolbeg back then.

[izzarina]

I am religious, but I don't write poetry (I just can't write at all, so I won't try to bore anyone with my prose). I'm with Dubh and would have picked adored poetry (albeit being religious along with that). I love to read poetry. There is just something sublime about it to me. Yes, I do like religiously based poems (believe it or not, Edgar Allen Poe has some wonderful ones), but they don't have to be. I can't explain it, really. I even get a kick out of many limericks and silly poems, although the more fanciful and flowery ones are more to my liking.

[BigDavy]

Amar said

the version by D.S. (davy steele, hahah..) is also my favourite. He was part of Ceolbeg back then.

My favourite too Amar, especially when he did it live - just him and Tony McManus on guitar. - Magic to listen to.

David

[Walden]

I reckon I'm something of a religious sort. What's poetry?

[Dale]

I think that having grown up as, essentially, a Biblical literalist, I can only look at Christianity from a literal true-or-false standpoint. Once I had decided that it was literally false, it became pretty much meaningless to me-

(sigh) I've done all I can do to help you with that.

[cowtime]

I'm religious and have loved poetry since my teens. so that's a few years Use to write a bit, but haven't in a long time.

I often think that so few folks know how to read a poem that it messes it up for them. They get caught up in the rhythm and loose the words.

[amar]

Amar said

the version by D.S. (davy steele, hahah..) is also my favourite. He was part of Ceolbeg back then.

My favourite too Amar, especially when he did it live - just him and Tony McManus on guitar. - Magic to listen to.

David

Tony McManus and Davy Steele. I wish I could hear that some day.

[Flyingcursor]

[...]Some songwriters use imagery that's worthy of the greats. Dylan springs to mind, but even Aerosmith can occasionally turn a phrase into a puzzle of poesy:

• I majored in Love
  But in all minor keys
  'Cause falling in love is hard on the knees.

Bob and Aerosmith...indeed.

No comment.....not one word.

Slan,
D.

I agree. We all know Dylan's lyrics were much closer to The Monkees.

[Walden]

I think that having grown up as, essentially, a Biblical literalist, I can only look at Christianity from a literal true-or-false standpoint. Once I had decided that it was literally false, it became pretty much meaningless to me-

(sigh) I've done all I can do to help you with that.

I'm not convinced Christianity is a matter of literal vs. nonliteral. The message comes in all sorts of ways.

[Congratulations]

I agree. We all know Dylan's lyrics were much closer to The Monkees.

[Darwin]

I agree. We all know Dylan's lyrics were much closer to The Monkees.

He' cruisin' for a bruisin'.

[Darwin]

I think that having grown up as, essentially, a Biblical literalist, I can only look at Christianity from a literal true-or-false standpoint. Once I had decided that it was literally false, it became pretty much meaningless to me-

(sigh) I've done all I can do to help you with that.

I'm not convinced Christianity is a matter of literal vs. nonliteral. The message comes in all sorts of ways.

But it seems that not everyone is on the mailing list.

[Walden]

But it seems that not everyone is on the mailing list.

"The wind bloweth where it listeth."

[Darwin]

But it seems that not everyone is on the mailing list.

"The wind bloweth where it listeth."

Sounds like poetry.

[dubhlinn]

I agree. We all know Dylan's lyrics were much closer to The Monkees.

He' cruisin' for a bruisin'.

Let us not judge hastily...his innocence is admirable, his taste dubious...but a fine sense of the absurd.

Slan,
D.