tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8457067560968597598.post3982493571388313266..comments2024-03-18T09:18:57.616+00:00Comments on Howard Cooper's Blog: ‘Does Poetry Matter?’Howard Cooperhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07499147712266456601noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8457067560968597598.post-45313772106105072062009-06-01T18:18:29.747+01:002009-06-01T18:18:29.747+01:00I would like to see wall space at FRS devoted to a...I would like to see wall space at FRS devoted to a rolling collection of Art and Poetry, I find that weeks without these influences leave me withered and weary. And it's so easy with the easiness/laziness of television eating ones free spaces.<br /><br />I also particuarly ask in relation to the shul as there are times (including the most busy and bustling such as a kiddish) when one can be quite alone in a room and in need of a place to focus ones attentions. Plus it never hurts to stimulate different thoughts and reach other audiences in shul.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02017217390558670023noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8457067560968597598.post-14414752764647812562009-05-19T18:40:00.000+01:002009-05-19T18:40:00.000+01:00from Alix, with any luck...
we have spoken before ...from Alix, with any luck...<br />we have spoken before about Keats, and negative<br />capability, and this life being the vale 0f soul making. I thi nk the early deaths are part<br />of that. They know, consciously or unconsciously, what is to come. Death, and pain. Thus the often excruciating intensity of<br />the work. Whom the gods love...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8457067560968597598.post-74958554562110220792009-05-17T21:38:00.000+01:002009-05-17T21:38:00.000+01:00Yes, indeed, Howard. And I have always thought Car...Yes, indeed, Howard. And I have always thought Carol Anne Duffy's Prayer the greatest sonnet, and possibly one of the best poems, of the 20th Century. What a blow it was when the Met Office renamed Finisterre, now FitzRoy.Robert L Stonehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00676585676775672566noreply@blogger.com