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Patrick Crowther
{K:13393} 7/21/2007
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Philip Larkin wrote the book (poem?) when it comes to melancholy! His wonderful poetry is very downbeat a lot of the time, but with a very dark, very English sense of humour as well. I first read him when I did A Level English at school all those moons ago, and this was my favourite of his poems. It spoke to me very deeply, and still does... your interpretation is nigh on perfect... exactly as I read it.
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Annemette Rosenborg Eriksen
{K:55244} 7/21/2007
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Oh such a melancholic poem - young blood and will to live and run free being destroyed by el-fences or in another version maybe norms and expectations, little boxes. Thanks for sharing this, Patrick.
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Annemette Rosenborg Eriksen
{K:55244} 7/21/2007
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well it depends on what you put in it hæhæ
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Patrick Crowther
{K:13393} 7/21/2007
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A poem for you, written by Philip Larkin... it's called 'Wires'... 'The widest prairies have electric fences, / For though old cattle know they must not stray / Young steers are always scenting purer water / Not here but anywhere. Beyond the wires / Leads them to blunder up against the wires / Whose muscle-shredding violence gives no quarter. / Young steers become old cattle from that day, / Electric limits to their widest senses.'
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Roger Skinner
{K:81846} 7/20/2007
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umm being an old BP grease cartridge I am not sure the mail would fit
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Annemette Rosenborg Eriksen
{K:55244} 7/20/2007
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They walk around in some hills facing the sea - no sheep in woolen bikinis allowed on the beach itself*LOL*
Thanks for commenting, Doyle and have a good weekend over there:-)
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Doyle D. Chastain
{K:101119} 7/20/2007
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Ouch. To keep them from the sea or by the sea. They're not worried they'll try to swim for it?? :P
Regards,
Doyle I <~~~~~
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