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Post by sanderella59 on Nov 26, 2007 4:55:16 GMT 9.5
Let's see. So much poetry.... so much to choose from. I have to admit to always having been very partial to the poets of England (cos in the 60s and 70s that's all you learnt at school) and when I visited UK for the first time it all made so much sense. I felt such an emotional connection to the countryside and the villages, much more than I feel in the country of my birth. Does that make sense? And there are so many shades of green. More than you could ever imagine possible.
Anyhow, to narrow down a few favourites -
Wordsworth - "Daffodils". (visited his cottage in the Lake District in spring and saw what he must have seen. Beautiful) "Upon Westminster Bridge" (also stood on this bridge and imagined a London from his time. I feel about London what he does. My favourite city in the world)
Keats - "Ode to Autumn" (Season of mist and mellow fruitfulness) - autumns in the UK are very like autumns in Tas. A real season and just beautiful.
Sir John Betjeman - Poet Laureate (that's basically the Queen's poet) who had such a wonderful way with words. My two faves of his are " A Sub-Altern's Love-Song" ( Miss J Hunter Dunn, Miss J Hunter Dunn, furnish'd and burnish'd by Aldershot sun) and "Christmas". ( I read this poem at our Nine Lessons and Carols service last year and it is now my favourite piece of Christmas). He has this great knack of turning the ordinary into poetry.
Shakespeare - pretty much all the sonnets. Have been to Stratford and seen Romeo & Juliet in the theatre there then wandered around unseeing with his words in my head nearly being hit by cars and angry cyclists! And the whole of Midsummer Night's Dream is sheer poetry (especially when you hear it with Mendelsohn's music)
W B Yeats - again pretty much anything by him. He was the poet I studied in Year 12 English Literature so I learned about him as a man and the troubled times he lived in (he was Irish) as well as just looking at his poetry.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning - her love sonnets are just beautiful though her idea of love is a little idealised!
W H Auden - "Stop All the Clocks" (the poem from Four Weddings and a Funeral)
Ogden Nash - just so witty. He has a unique style that is very addictive ( An oyster is a confusing suitor, it's masc. and fem. and even neuter!)
That's enough to be going on with. I've got to go to work. I suggest Mar, looking for some anthologies or collections to get you started. That way you get a good overview of lots of different styles and poets. I started collecting when I was about your age and my books of love poetry and others are still treasured friends. Have just had them all out going through them to find inclusions to this list and will have to take them to bed with me tonight! Especially try John Betjeman. He is fantastic!
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Post by jazzgirl1960 on Nov 26, 2007 5:41:18 GMT 9.5
Mar look them up on the net, you will find lots of poetry!  Try the Highwayman, it's terribly melodramatic - one of my all time favorite poems. Sandra some great choices, I also love Daffodils: I wandered lonely as a Cloud That floats on high o'er Vales and Hills, When all at once I saw a crowd, A host of golden daffodils - so beautiful! My fav's of E Barrett Browning Sonnets are: XIV - If thou must love me, let it be for naught XLIII - How do I love thee? Let me count the ways XXI - Say over again, and yet once over again XI - Go from me. Yet I feel that I shall stand My fav's of Shakespeare Sonnets are: Sonnet 29 - When in disgrace with fortune (would love to hear Ant recite this one!) Sonnet 18 - Shall I compare thee to a summers day? |
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Post by lucinab on Nov 26, 2007 6:19:48 GMT 9.5
Marie-Cris, are you a fellow Poe-lover? He's me favorite author and poet. I recently went to the Poe Museum in Richmond, VA. It was really cool. They had his childhood furniture, many of his original manuscripts and even some of his clothes. I really wanted the bust they had in the gift shop, but I wasn't quite prepared to drop $300 for it. . . It so nice to hear there are so many poetry lovers here . . . very refreshing.
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Post by sanderella59 on Nov 26, 2007 8:20:30 GMT 9.5
As a very young child I once performed "The Highwayman" set to music in an Eisteddfod. Highly inappropriate song for a 10 year old girl to be performing, (I mean it's not like I could method act or anything!!!) but I was caught up with the romantic dramatic words. "The moon was a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas" - such imagery!
YAAAY I found this link for John Betjeman's poetry. Try it and see what you think.
[ftp]http://www.poemhunter.com/i/ebooks/pdf/sir_john_betjeman_2004_9.pdf[/ftp]
I just love Google when all you can remember is a line from a poem. I do that a lot. Some snatch of childhood poetry comes back to me at the strangest moments, like song lyrics which is just poetry with music (well, mostly not sure if anythyng Spice Girls have done really qualifies as poetry!)
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Post by Marie-Cris on Nov 26, 2007 9:34:33 GMT 9.5
I love Poe; there's a Grimoire of Poe in ... Dymmocks, I think. Couldn't afford it when I first saw it but I must get one some day. I like having poetry in books; it is easy to copy them off the net, but I like to hold them ... a bit like official CDs and DVDs and so forth. Our library has The Oxford Shakespeare Complete Works or something like that; I'm the only one that borrows it. As proof, my borrowing receipt is still sitting at the end of Twelfth Night from three years' ago.
I'm just curious why most people mention The Daffodils when they talk of Wadsworth; some know he wrote the Songs of Hiawatha ((I can't spell)), but most never mention it ((not that I blame them)). He's got a very lovely one called The Children's Hour that I'd like to hear Warlow recite.
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Post by sanderella59 on Nov 26, 2007 9:50:46 GMT 9.5
Aha. We are talking about two different poets. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was an American poet (1807-1882) who lived in New England. He wrote Hiawatha, Paul Revere's Ride and the Children's Hour amongst many other beautiful works.
William Wordsworth was an English poet (1770-1850) who was born and died in the Lake District of northwest England and wrote many beautiful poems about the English countryside of which "Daffodils" is the most recognised. He basically founded the Romantic Literature Age and influenced others such as Byron and Yeats.
Here endeth the English Literaure lesson (with thanks to Wikipedia for help with the dates!)
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Post by Marie-Cris on Nov 26, 2007 10:58:34 GMT 9.5
Ah, there you go; I've only got Henry Wadsworth.
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Post by neh on Nov 26, 2007 12:44:26 GMT 9.5
Mum, what a brilliant notion - Ant doing poetry.... my gosh, him doing The Highwayman... and whispering the "riding, riding" moments.... *drooling commences*
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Post by sanderella59 on Nov 26, 2007 14:28:37 GMT 9.5
Especially if he was dressed as one with breeches and long black boots and a white frilled shirt and pistols and a big black hat and........... must go and sit in a darkened room till I stop trembling
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Post by Marie-Cris on Nov 26, 2007 15:14:12 GMT 9.5
Perhaps we should change the subject a tad before we all go into a unified Antasm?
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Post by sanderella59 on Nov 26, 2007 15:25:06 GMT 9.5
That may set off the Richter scale!!!!!
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Post by Marie-Cris on Nov 26, 2007 15:26:31 GMT 9.5
And if we end up destroying the world, where would our dear Ant perform?
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Post by lucinab on Nov 26, 2007 15:31:22 GMT 9.5
I really don't think anyone should encourage this line of thought (it could be dangerous), but I am sitting here laughing at you all for thinking such things . . . : ) It's very entertaining. . .
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Post by Marie-Cris on Nov 26, 2007 15:45:01 GMT 9.5
We're not madmen for just any reason.
((or madwomen, as the case frequently seems to be here))
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Post by sanderella59 on Nov 26, 2007 15:59:16 GMT 9.5
He has the voice of an angel so I guess heaven would be the obvious venue. 24 hour a day Anthony concert. Beats wings a halo and a harp any day as far as my idea of heaven goes!
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Post by jazzgirl1960 on Nov 26, 2007 16:34:50 GMT 9.5
He has the voice of an angel so I guess heaven would be the obvious venue. 24 hour a day Anthony concert. Beats wings a halo and a harp any day as far as my idea of heaven goes! I totally agree with you Sandra... heaven alright! *toast* I'm glad you all liked my poetry idea...  didn't mean to set of earth tremors 'n such! |
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Post by sanderella59 on Nov 26, 2007 16:38:59 GMT 9.5
Perhaps we should alert the SES and the Red Cross in case they have started to marshall their troops!
How's the neck behaving Jazz? Any better?
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Post by Joshrls on Nov 27, 2007 1:32:49 GMT 9.5
i reacon that All I Ask of You with Ana Would be a great song from him to do........ a bonus on the ACR maybe..... thinks very wierd thoughts...........
Josh
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Post by jazzgirl1960 on Nov 27, 2007 7:15:48 GMT 9.5
Perhaps we should alert the SES and the Red Cross in case they have started to marshall their troops! How's the neck behaving Jazz? Any better? HeHeHe, I have friends in the bush fire brigade... I warn them! Sandra the physio is actually helping a lot more now that the physio knows what he's dealing with. But my rat fink boss still refuses to fix up anything in our office, so it all gets undone again every time I go back there to work! I have gone over his head and told my case manager (useless though she is!) to see if the insurance company can force him to do the work. Failing this, I'll be off to talk to the nice people at workcover... they will then do an audit and he will be in big trouble... he probably doesn't think I'll go that far, but I will. I'm gonna have trouble for the rest of my life with this sort of pain, so he has no idea how far I will go, and it's not just for me - it's for my co-workers too! Rat Fink Boss! *swear* (I like this new smiley!) |
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Post by sanderella59 on Nov 27, 2007 17:02:37 GMT 9.5
OH you poor thing! Is there nothing worse than an unsympathetic boss! You'll just have to hope it all comes back to bite him on the bum!
Keep your chin up (unless it hurts too much to do that !!!! *laugh* )
I would like Ant to record a pure opera album to keep this very tragic opera groupie happy. It's about the only genre he's never recorded in (except rap & hiphop of course!)
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Post by Marie-Cris on Nov 27, 2007 17:18:46 GMT 9.5
Don't forget Emo, Screamo, Reggae, Metal, Death Metal, et cetera.
Pray it never gets to that.
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Post by sanderella59 on Nov 27, 2007 18:08:18 GMT 9.5
Or Country & Western though I suppose the bracket he did with ONJ at the Main Event qualifies. Loved the twang in Let Me Be There!!!!
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Post by Marie-Cris on Nov 27, 2007 19:39:06 GMT 9.5
That's why I hesitated to say country; he could bring out a few more like that. Not a whole album, just ... I don't know, but it would be nice to hear a bit more of that.
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Post by jazzgirl1960 on Nov 27, 2007 21:17:12 GMT 9.5
I'd love to have an opera CD too!
My late father listened to opera a lot, but it never really appealed to me much, although with Ant singing I'm sure I'd love it. The only opera singer I ever liked much is Jose Cararas.
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Post by omarington on Nov 29, 2007 16:44:22 GMT 9.5
An opera album would be wonderful as I'm a gigantic opera fan (more so than musical theatre). It would be interesting to see what sort of repetoire he would choose. It's not easy to place him in a specific fach but I can think of a few nice French arias such as "Avant de quitter ces lieux" from Faust and perhaps a few Bel Canto too. I'd hope he'd stay away from the big Verdi arias, though I must say I'd love to hear him sing "Di provenza il mar" from Traviata. Wouldn't go any further than that though. Perhaps a 'classical' album focusing on classical pieces, art songs etc. with just a few arias and duets from operas would be more appropriate.
Oh, and by the way, "La donna รจ mobile" is a TENOR canzone outside Anth's range. In musicals he can sing many 'tenor' roles wonderfully, but an operatic tenor is a world apart and Anth is definitely not one! He would be closest to a lyric baritone.
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Post by killerbananas on Dec 20, 2007 12:27:24 GMT 9.5
Don't forget Emo, Screamo, Reggae, Metal, Death Metal, et cetera. Pray it never gets to that. I don't know "Anthony Warlow covers Slipknot" number 1 hit right there!! People would die if that happened.... I think he should do some more Bricusse/Newley numbers, the few I've heard him do (on ME and such) he gave them such character and emotion. Although along the Opera line, I'd love him to record all the songs from the show "A Song To Sing, O" |
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Post by Marie-Cris on Dec 20, 2007 13:53:30 GMT 9.5
"Ditto, ditto, my song" ...
I would die. Of horror. Although I admit I'd give it a listen to see how he pulls it off without ripping his vocal chords to pieces.
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didn't mean to set of earth tremors 'n such!
