Two Poems on Time ( and a reflection)
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- Опубликовано: 30 ноя 2021
- Milton and Herbert were divided by churchmanship and politics but are now united as poets
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A favourite of mine if not somewhat pedestrian:
To see a world in a grain of sand,
And heaven in a wild flower.
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand,
And, integrity in an hour.
Oh Divine synthesis! Child of Time.
Let all their strife and clamour find full rest.
And all confusion with an End be blessed.
That closes up the story as in rhyme.
Guitars and pipes! Best combo for my 😊👍☑️
I think it's just lovely, the message you gave at the end.
When I was at university amongst students from different nations the thre e biggest topics to bring everyone together was food, drink and stories/folklore/superstitions. We are not all too dissimilar.
Time' - yen' and yon.. Light' and dark, is continual. All merely' revolve, in and out' of the two. Til' life passes through, its ending' of flash' and freezing, finally' to be, intombed.
That’s a beautiful thought. “They each had something to say and opened out a larger whole.”
What a wonderful query. I am reminded of several stories of old soldiers from opposing sides of old wars (or even young soldiers on opposing sides of active conflicts) becoming close friends. It is not a stretch of logic. All soldiers have much in common regardless of alliance. Same is true for poets I suppose. Or human beings. (Guitar players, pipe smokers...) Common experience, unique perspective. I only discovered your channel recently, and I am enjoying everything about it. Thank you.
You have such love for the text and also for the texture and feel of the actual books themselves. Thank you Malcolm.
Fantastic video.
Recently found your channel and really enjoy it. Certainly has rekindled my pipe enjoyment.
Regards
Mark
Excellent!!! Look forward to hearing more readings.
Mr Malcolm you do have some beautiful peterson briar's! I have smoked majority Savinelli pipes for many a year but I'm warming up to peterson! I so enjoy your readings and your cozy study with a nice pipe ... happy holidays
Thank you kindly
@Malcolm, Thanks for the reading. One of my favorite videos you've done. I believe the greatest thing that has been lost in humanity (in my life time) is the ability to have discourse of opposing views while maintaining respect for the one another. Individual perspective is a beautiful thing, and I believe we all could be a bit more long suffering with our attempts to understand someone else's perspective. Cheers!
I agree with you whole heartedly
I think the ability to have that discourse remains among a good many of us… elves, dwarves, men, hobbits, and wizards can still have a lively fellowship of discussion informed by their unique perspectives. But when orcs arrive on the scene with boorish insistence that they (and their master) have all the answers despite obvious inability to grasp based facts of life… well, that’s where decent folk can rightly walk away without lamenting the loss of conversations not had.
Excellent, Brother Malcolm!
Thank you kindly!
Thank you
Thank you, Malcolm!
This is why I recoil from the current fashion in my United States to tear down Confederate monuments and to "cancel" all those in the past who do not measure up to contemporary standards. I recall the emotions I felt, when I once visited the Gettysburg battlefield, and thought "All these who fought here, whether Northerners or Southerners, were fighting for America AS THEY SAW IT." I am happy to honor both, while at the same time affirming that one side was correct, and the other was beyond doubt in error.
Thank you so much for those words.
Wow ... that's the best way I've ever heard it put ! I say absolutely... thanks for sharing that
A lovely reflection on Time. Now if only those who are so divided in our world could do a similar reflection to what you've shown us, they might see themselves in a future "time" sitting beside one another, so to speak.
indeed!
I think of Heaney and Simmons who were often seen in opposition. I am Sommons widow and American born but never saw them as that. I saw them in a difficult conversation ...in which people took sides I agreed with both at different times and disagreed with both at times. Heaney was a more consistent talent but Simmons had his moments.
Your youtube channel lead me to your poetry! Thank you for all of your writing and these talks!
You are so welcome!
@@MalcolmGuitespell I raise my pipe and a pint to you Sir. :)
Thank you Malcolm, this was most timely indeed.
A beautiful sequence of poets and poems.
Ps.
When I saw all your guitars at the start ... I thought you’d quit your job down at the car wash ... and that by sundown you’d left Kingston with your guitar under your coat, hitchhiked all the way down to Memphis, got a room at the YMCA, for the next three weeks you went huntin’ them nights, just lookin’ for a place to play ... 🎸😬
Glad you enjoyed it!
That Milton poem is extraordinary!
yes it's brilliant!
These gave me chill bumps! I do prefer the Herbert but both are gorgeous.
Another great reading that we actually have now chosen to feature at our open studio sharing here in Greensboro Vermont which is every Friday from 4 to 6 PM.
We share paintings, drawings, manuscripts, poetry, music and small tastings. But this was great because we could form a theme, using yours on Time , to have people here elaborate their thoughts on time. Just want you to know you’ve reached remote sections of the earth!
Indeed the best things in life are those that decay. This includes political and social perspectives that divide. The real buggers for society are the perspectives that linger on past their shelf life, stubbornly held to by the small minded.
I've been reading two female poets of the civil war period, Hester Pulter a royalist and Lucy Hutchinson a parliamentarian yet both writing Christian poetry, which is fascinating and sad. They would both have accepted Pulter's words:
Then, Sin, triumph no longer over me,
For I in Christ have conquered Death and thee.
thanks, I must check them out. Is there a current book with their work?
'The Mill On The Floss' George Eliot.....A different story in a different era, but a similar theme.....A brother & sister at odds their entire life, but found in each others arms, when found in their boat.....
thanks for that
This sounds very much like Howard Bloom's concept that opposites are joined at the hip. Writers are like explorer cells of bacterial colonies, each going its own way to map out the terrain for future expansion. It seems these writers thought of time in different ways, but helped to further a way for Western culture to see it and think about it as a whole concept.
Herbert and Milton worked in the predominant media of their time. Today so few people are paying any attention to writers (poetic or otherwise) that, yes, there are poets with much enmity against one another--in institutionalized departments of Creative Writing! That said I doubt their enmity will be worth preservation, unlike these figures who marked an important moment in English history, as you help to make plain.
FYI, I enjoyed this video while enjoying Peterson's Old Dublin in my new Rhodesian bullcap by Johs, a Danish pipe maker. Cheers :)
yes, you're wright. and by the way that's a great pipe/tobacco combination!
Malcolm, would you be able to do a video on how to get started writing a sonnet. I’m not thinking of simply commenting on structure but rather commenting on the act of writing. Do you write a line focused first on meaning and then go back a change and rearrange to ensure you have the unstressed-stressed iambs and count correct?
I have occasionally given courses on poetry writing but I'll think about a video, it wouldn't work with this library series though
A little more harmony in the world would indeed be lovely. And guitars, lots more guitars!
yes indeed. Like many men of my age I suffer from GAS (Guitar Acquisition Syndrome)
Time's face, - circling. Consistent, in celestial form. A stone' of immortal casting. Where-by space' and matter, invariably' are scourged. Thus' endlessly, converge. Joining' between lengths, long-laid. Before' final curve's, rounding. Certainty presents' hourly examination. Seconds, "ticking-away" the Intricate trials. Falling' in short suspension. Mechanized' lines, held' to their linier' observation. - Fails' in-marking, sub-atomic' interaction. What' motionless, momentum' gains. Accelerating' the accumulation' of quantification. Wedges' revolving, by temporal' cog. Out-come' from existence, brings chaos' to order. Repeating' inceptive state. With random, evolutionary' pattern. This assortment' of measurement. Finds' by-sand, being universally' in-grained.
Though' time, runs' out. Never' is time' with-out. - Time "does'' indeed, wait' for all' men.
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Do you happen to have a podcast by chance?
yes, but I haven't done much with it for a while, I need to revive it at some point
Malcolm what Peterson was that?
Hi.....Don’t mean to bother you, knowing that you are very busy... but I heard a preacher say a few lines of a Percey Shellys poem of this... and I can’t seem to find the title... could you help me?🙂...”nature, with its melancholy chorus, resembles a bride who at the very moment, when she’s fully attired for the marriage, saw her bridegroom die...”. It’s comparing nature with things, dying etc.. I think.... or can you gv me hints of searching?... I’ve googled and RUclipsd 🙂. Thx much☺️. Judy
I know a lot of Shelley's poetry but unfortunately those lines as you quote them dont ring many bells
@@MalcolmGuitespell ok. Thx... it was from a recording from JVernon McGee... maybe he got it wrong!🤔☺️. I just heard Keith Getty on Eric Metaxes show... speaking about his next week Carnage Hall Christmas concert, and that you’re going to be there! Wow. Wishing I could fly to NYC! Eric raved about you and said that he’s never had you on as a guest, but would like to! 😉. That’s some “ inside info” for you😊. Do u think you would post the readings that you’re gonna do there, on RUclips? So I can hear them!?😁🙏. Love your readings and ramblings...blessings to you 🥰
Possibly' out of Frankenstein.
Fantastic video.
Recently found your channel and really enjoy it. Certainly has rekindled my pipe enjoyment.
Regards
Mark
Fantastic video.
Recently found your channel and really enjoy it. Certainly has rekindled my pipe enjoyment.
Regards
Mark
Welcome aboard!
Fantastic video.
Recently found your channel and really enjoy it. Certainly has rekindled my pipe enjoyment.
Regards
Mark
Glad you enjoy it!