{"id":111,"date":"2009-04-28T12:08:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-28T12:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/?p=111"},"modified":"2009-04-28T12:08:00","modified_gmt":"2009-04-28T12:08:00","slug":"parting-with-poetry-for-the-moment%e2%80%a6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/?p=111","title":{"rendered":">Parting with Poetry (for the moment\u2026)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>In Neglect        <br \/><\/strong>They left us so to the way we took       <br \/>As two in whom they were proved mistaken       <br \/>That we sit sometimes in the wayside nook       <br \/>with mischievous, vagrant, seraphic look       <br \/>and smile if we cannot feel forsaken.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>I love<\/em> this Robert Frost poem that my younger son and I decided to memorize together.&#160; \u201cTogether\u201d is a relative thing\u2026he was at school and I was here, at home.&#160; It will surprise no one that he memorized it long before I did and had to help spoon-feed it to me.<a href=\"http:\/\/lh6.ggpht.com\/_wMHmSKIt2bg\/Sfbxz-9c1RI\/AAAAAAAAA4A\/_fP_WqkLGTQ\/s1600-h\/BlogRobertFrost3.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Blog Robert Frost\" style=\"border-top-width: 0px; display: inline; border-left-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; border-right-width: 0px\" height=\"244\" alt=\"Blog Robert Frost\" src=\"http:\/\/lh5.ggpht.com\/_wMHmSKIt2bg\/Sfbx0Y4VCsI\/AAAAAAAAA4E\/lmTyqjUKnuc\/BlogRobertFrost_thumb1.jpg?imgmax=800\" width=\"134\" align=\"left\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Painting of Robert Frost    <br \/>by Huang Xiang<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<\/p>\n<p>I want to memorize another short poem, just to see if I can. Here are two I\u2019m considering:<\/p>\n<p><em>Some say the world will end in fire,      <br \/>Some say in ice.       <br \/>From what I\u2019ve tasted of desire       <br \/>I hold with those who favor fire.       <br \/>But if it had to perish twice,       <br \/>I think I know enough of hate       <br \/>To say that for destruction ice       <br \/>Is also great       <br \/>And would suffice.       <br \/>&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; Robert Frost<\/em><\/p>\n<p>******<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Parting        <br \/><\/strong>My life closed twice before its close;       <br \/>It yet remains to see       <br \/>If Immortality unveil       <br \/>A third event to me,       <br \/>So huge, so hopeless to conceive,       <br \/>As these that twice befell.       <br \/>Parting is all we know of heaven,       <br \/>And all we need of hell       <br \/>&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; Emily Dickinson<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I supposed I\u2019ll try not to write about poetry again too soon. I was happy to find two blogs and a website and to share them!    <br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.loc.gov\/poetry\/180\/p180-list.html\" target=\"_blank\">Poetry<\/a> 180     <br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/redravine.wordpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Red Ravine<\/a>     <br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/poetryforchildren.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Poetry for Children<\/a> (a happy discovery that this is the blog of one of my childhood friends! She gets the Proximity award from me!)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lh3.ggpht.com\/_wMHmSKIt2bg\/Sfbx06kNKgI\/AAAAAAAAA4I\/SPIA7TFcofM\/s1600-h\/BlogEdnaSt.vincentmillay5.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Blog Edna St. vincent millay\" style=\"border-top-width: 0px; display: inline; border-left-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; border-right-width: 0px\" height=\"177\" alt=\"Blog Edna St. vincent millay\" src=\"http:\/\/lh5.ggpht.com\/_wMHmSKIt2bg\/Sfbx1YEVkPI\/AAAAAAAAA4M\/dYwxcl7x6GA\/BlogEdnaSt.vincentmillay_thumb3.jpg?imgmax=800\" width=\"138\" align=\"left\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Ink, charcoal, colored pencil on paper&#160; Edna St. Vincent Millay drawn by    <br \/>William Zorach<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<\/p>\n<p><em>     <br \/>My candle burns at both ends       <br \/>It will not last the night;       <br \/>But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends &#8211;       <br \/>It gives a lovely light.       <br \/><\/em>&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; <em>Edna St. Vincent Millay<\/em><\/p>\n<p>That poem reminds me of all of you who inspire me, who keep me searching for art and meaning\u2026I see by the light of your candles! Life is short, but so full of passion!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>> In Neglect They left us so to the way we took As two in whom they were proved mistaken That we sit sometimes in the wayside nook with mischievous, vagrant, seraphic look and smile if we cannot feel forsaken. 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