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26-07-2013 02:41 PM |
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Originally Posted by Livia
(Post 6214272)
If you don't like them they must be crap.
This country is full of poetry, from traditional poets to lyricists... I'm surprised you can't acknowledge that.
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nah its too much self flagulation...I preferred hemingway for starters..I don't think were a poetic nation at heart at all.....we are obsessed with structure and form.....bit like music ...were genius in structure and form prose and punctuation..but lacking in soul spirit passion whatever you call it....we tend to sneer at anything sentimental....I don't I embrace that sentimentality....its this that draws so many of us to American soul music and blues too...its got heart...Englishness is just too closely attached to monarchy often and it kills the passion for me..i don't even sing my own anthem? we are 50 million English men and women and we don't sing about our land our people, we sing about a rich lady on a throne? its utterly meaningless soulless passionless, its an insult to the great people of England......
despite our supposed great literary giants and famous singers, find me an English folk singer who sings from the heart? or a poet who writes from his soul...its a bit thin on the ground in my humble opinion... were all structure and not enough passion.....American country singers tend to be poets too...when you listen to woodie Guthrie , Waylon Jennings, bob Dylan , johnny cash, damn it youre there with them....you feel the pain, the joy, heck youre riding the horseback alongside them with blood sweat and tears pouring from every pore.....have I ever felt that with an English poet? nope....some of Dylan Thomas perhaps , he was a bit morbid but I did love under milk wood and the poem about becoming young again in death.....bit of a morbid alcoholic but he at least had the kind of passion I like.....each to their own I suppose
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