Comments on: Poetry Thursday #5 and #6 http://bookworm.pilcrow.biz/2007/02/08/poetry-thursday-5-and-6/ Writing about reading Sun, 22 Jan 2012 23:44:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Inkling http://bookworm.pilcrow.biz/2007/02/08/poetry-thursday-5-and-6/comment-page-1/#comment-31633 Inkling Thu, 15 Feb 2007 01:49:50 +0000 http://bookworm.pilcrow.biz/2007/02/08/poetry-thursday-5-and-6/#comment-31633 Well, I had some ideas, but I cannot compete with Aunt Sara's interpretation there! Well, I had some ideas, but I cannot compete with Aunt Sara’s interpretation there!

]]> By: Aunt Sara http://bookworm.pilcrow.biz/2007/02/08/poetry-thursday-5-and-6/comment-page-1/#comment-30763 Aunt Sara Sun, 11 Feb 2007 18:40:45 +0000 http://bookworm.pilcrow.biz/2007/02/08/poetry-thursday-5-and-6/#comment-30763 I am sorry that you find Bryn Mawr-graduate Moore a bit too challenging for your Swarthmore-educated brain. Alas, we can't all attend Seven Sisters colleges. I think the second poem, about the feet, anticipated the later work of literary scholar Nancy Sinatra. An excerpt: You keep lying, when you oughta be truthin' and you keep losin' when you oughta not bet. You keep samin' when you oughta be a changin'. Now what's right is right, but you ain't been right yet. These boots are made for walking, and that's just what they'll do one of these days these boots are gonna walk all over you. (From, "These Boots Are Made For Walkin'," by Nancy Sinatra, 1966) While Sinatra seems to recommend that a shod foot makes a good weapon, Moore is cautionary, and urges us to exercise good judgment and use feet (and perhaps other skills and powers) in morally appropriate ways. I am sorry that you find Bryn Mawr-graduate Moore a bit too challenging for your Swarthmore-educated brain. Alas, we can’t all attend Seven Sisters colleges.

I think the second poem, about the feet, anticipated the later work of literary scholar Nancy Sinatra. An excerpt:

You keep lying, when you oughta be truthin’
and you keep losin’ when you oughta not bet.
You keep samin’ when you oughta be a changin’.
Now what’s right is right, but you ain’t been right yet.

These boots are made for walking, and that’s just what they’ll do
one of these days these boots are gonna walk all over you.

(From, “These Boots Are Made For Walkin’,” by Nancy Sinatra, 1966)

While Sinatra seems to recommend that a shod foot makes a good weapon, Moore is cautionary, and urges us to exercise good judgment and use feet (and perhaps other skills and powers) in morally appropriate ways.

]]> By: Fred http://bookworm.pilcrow.biz/2007/02/08/poetry-thursday-5-and-6/comment-page-1/#comment-30394 Fred Sat, 10 Feb 2007 03:13:48 +0000 http://bookworm.pilcrow.biz/2007/02/08/poetry-thursday-5-and-6/#comment-30394 Poetry. It's never been my strong suit. I was (and still am) horrible at intepreting poems. Poetry. It’s never been my strong suit. I was (and still am) horrible at intepreting poems.

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