Poetry Appreciation Thread

[aah31415 (The maker of SitF, Radiostrocity, The Lifenote and TGBing; The Second Ascended...; And just maybe a security warning come alive...?)]

Crazy how old english looks nothing like modern english

[AnthropocenianAge (𝒜𝓇𝓉𝒽𝓇𝑜𝓅𝓁𝑒𝓊𝓇𝒶 𝓌𝒶𝓃𝓉𝓈 𝓉𝑜 𝑔𝒾𝓋𝑒 𝓎𝑜𝓊 𝒶 𝒽𝓊𝑔!)]

And then there is apparently Middle English (I am not kidding).

[aah31415 (The maker of SitF, Radiostrocity, The Lifenote and TGBing; The Second Ascended...; And just maybe a security warning come alive...?)]

I can assume it’d be more familiar…

[AnthropocenianAge (𝒜𝓇𝓉𝒽𝓇𝑜𝓅𝓁𝑒𝓊𝓇𝒶 𝓌𝒶𝓃𝓉𝓈 𝓉𝑜 𝑔𝒾𝓋𝑒 𝓎𝑜𝓊 𝒶 𝒽𝓊𝑔!)]

From Gitanjali (Song Offerings)

by Bengali poet Rabindranath Tagore (1913 Nobel Prize in Literature)

(Translation to English by the original poet)

46

I KNOW not from what distant time

thou art ever coming nearer to meet

me. Thy sun and stars can never

keep thee hidden from me for aye.

In many a morning and eve thy

footsteps have been heard and thy

messenger has come within my heart and called me in secret.

I know not why to-day my life is all

astir, and a feeling of tremulous joy is

passing through my heart. It is as if the time were come to

wind up my work, and I feel in the air

a faint smell of thy sweet presence.

Original Bengali

৪৬

আমার মিলন লাগি তুমি

আসছ কবে থেকে।

তোমার চন্দ্র সূর্যতোমায়

রাখবে কোথায় ঢেকে।

কত কালের সকাল-সাঁঝে

তোমার চরণধনি বাজে,

গোপনে দূত হৃদয়মাঝে

গেছে আমায় ডেকে।

ওগো পথিক, আজকে আমার

সকল পরান ব্যেপে

থেকে থেকে হরষ যেন

উঠছে কেঁপে কেঁপে।

যেন সময় এসেছে আজ,

ফুরালো মোর যা ছিল কাজ —

বাতাস আসে হে মহারাজ,

তোমার গন্ধ মেখে।

[aah31415 (The maker of SitF, Radiostrocity, The Lifenote and TGBing; The Second Ascended...; And just maybe a security warning come alive...?)]

I wonder where these signs went in the modern era…

[Nie ([ɲɛ] | 🇵🇱 | 𝕕𝕖𝕡𝕣𝕖𝕤𝕤𝕚𝕠𝕟 𝕤𝕦𝕔𝕜𝕤, 𝕠𝕔𝕕 𝕤𝕦𝕔𝕜𝕤, 𝕒𝕟𝕕 𝕀 𝕙𝕒𝕧𝕖 𝕤𝕨𝕚𝕥𝕔𝕙𝕖𝕕 𝕗𝕣𝕠𝕞 𝕞𝕖𝕕𝕚𝕜𝕚𝕟𝕖𝕥 𝕥𝕠 𝕒𝕥𝕖𝕟𝕫𝕒 :𝔻)]

Which/what signs?

@AnthropocenianAge

[…]
উঠছে কেঁপে কেঁপে।
যেন সময় এসেছে আজ,
ফুরালো মোর যা ছিল কাজ
[…]

These? It’s the Bengali Script, used by over 260 million people worldwide. Assuming that’s what you were referring to, it can be safely said, that in the modern era these signs went on to become the sole official script of Bangladesh, and one of many official scripts in India.

[aah31415 (The maker of SitF, Radiostrocity, The Lifenote and TGBing; The Second Ascended...; And just maybe a security warning come alive...?)]

I meant the “signs of god” mentioned in the text, like the “heard footsteps” and stuff…

[Nie ([ɲɛ] | 🇵🇱 | 𝕕𝕖𝕡𝕣𝕖𝕤𝕤𝕚𝕠𝕟 𝕤𝕦𝕔𝕜𝕤, 𝕠𝕔𝕕 𝕤𝕦𝕔𝕜𝕤, 𝕒𝕟𝕕 𝕀 𝕙𝕒𝕧𝕖 𝕤𝕨𝕚𝕥𝕔𝕙𝕖𝕕 𝕗𝕣𝕠𝕞 𝕞𝕖𝕕𝕚𝕜𝕚𝕟𝕖𝕥 𝕥𝕠 𝕒𝕥𝕖𝕟𝕫𝕒 :𝔻)]

Ah, must’ve missed that while reading (I’m sleep deprived).

[aah31415 (The maker of SitF, Radiostrocity, The Lifenote and TGBing; The Second Ascended...; And just maybe a security warning come alive...?)]

Maybe they meant earthquakes by that?

[C009 (Least favourite developer)]

Subject is talking, to my eyes, about something good, something of please, I don’t think earthquakes count to that.

[aah31415 (The maker of SitF, Radiostrocity, The Lifenote and TGBing; The Second Ascended...; And just maybe a security warning come alive...?)]

Oh, I thought the original writer was talking about (a) god of some sort…

[C009 (Least favourite developer)]

It could be God (or a god), but I just don’t think that such one would cause earthquakes when speaker is talking about something good.

[aah31415 (The maker of SitF, Radiostrocity, The Lifenote and TGBing; The Second Ascended...; And just maybe a security warning come alive...?)]

Not sure what could the “footsteps” be of then. Maybe a love subject of sorts?

[AnthropocenianAge (𝒜𝓇𝓉𝒽𝓇𝑜𝓅𝓁𝑒𝓊𝓇𝒶 𝓌𝒶𝓃𝓉𝓈 𝓉𝑜 𝑔𝒾𝓋𝑒 𝓎𝑜𝓊 𝒶 𝒽𝓊𝑔!)]

Emily Dic-kinson (1830–86). Complete Poems. 1924.

Part Two: Nature

# LXXXV

A LIGHT exists in spring

Not present on the year

At any other period.

When March is scarcely here

A color stands abroad

On solitary hills

That silence cannot overtake,

But human nature feels.

It waits upon the lawn;

It shows the furthest tree

Upon the furthest slope we know;

It almost speaks to me.

Then, as horizons step,

Or noons report away,

Without the formula of sound,

It passes, and we stay:

A quality of loss

Affecting our content,

As trade had suddenly encroached

Upon a sacrament.

[aah31415 (The maker of SitF, Radiostrocity, The Lifenote and TGBing; The Second Ascended...; And just maybe a security warning come alive...?)]

@AnthropocenianAge

Part Two: Nature

Does that suggest there also was/is a part one?

[AnthropocenianAge (𝒜𝓇𝓉𝒽𝓇𝑜𝓅𝓁𝑒𝓊𝓇𝒶 𝓌𝒶𝓃𝓉𝓈 𝓉𝑜 𝑔𝒾𝓋𝑒 𝓎𝑜𝓊 𝒶 𝒽𝓊𝑔!)]

It is from a collection of poetry, so yes, there is a part one. Somewhere.

[aah31415 (The maker of SitF, Radiostrocity, The Lifenote and TGBing; The Second Ascended...; And just maybe a security warning come alive...?)]

I suppose the sequel was superior to it’s predecessor…

[AnthropocenianAge (𝒜𝓇𝓉𝒽𝓇𝑜𝓅𝓁𝑒𝓊𝓇𝒶 𝓌𝒶𝓃𝓉𝓈 𝓉𝑜 𝑔𝒾𝓋𝑒 𝓎𝑜𝓊 𝒶 𝒽𝓊𝑔!)]

Here is the website with the entire Emily Dic-kinson collection, in case anyone else is interested in reading them.

The Complete Poems Archives - Collection at Bartleby.com

[aah31415 (The maker of SitF, Radiostrocity, The Lifenote and TGBing; The Second Ascended...; And just maybe a security warning come alive...?)]

How many poems do you read a week (or a day)?

[AnthropocenianAge (𝒜𝓇𝓉𝒽𝓇𝑜𝓅𝓁𝑒𝓊𝓇𝒶 𝓌𝒶𝓃𝓉𝓈 𝓉𝑜 𝑔𝒾𝓋𝑒 𝓎𝑜𝓊 𝒶 𝒽𝓊𝑔!)]

It depends on how much time I have. I try to read at least some poetry every week.