a poll of great seriousness & importance

[ontology]

[Poll #1104061]

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[last-archangel.livejournal.com]

Dylan Thomas, without a doubt.

Not for the proud man apart
From the raging moon I write
On these spindrift pages
Nor for the towering dead
With their nightingales and psalms
But for the lovers, their arms
Round the griefs of the ages
Who pay no praise or wages
Nor heed my craft or art.

[faeriemaiden.livejournal.com]

Ooh, I hadn't even thought of him, but that's excellent! Madness inside of structure: very River!

[lexiedoh.livejournal.com]

I can also see her loving e.e. cummings rather a lot, but that might also only be because he's probably the poet I know best.

...

Now that I think more on it, maybe she doesn't strike me as quite the cummings fan I imagined at first.

(Also, I love you.)

[bonny-kathryn.livejournal.com]

John Donne (for his imagery and the way everything he says has multiple meanings)

GO and catch a falling star,
Get with child a mandrake root,
Tell me where all past years are,
Or who cleft the devil's foot,
Teach me to hear mermaids singing,
Or to keep off envy's stinging,
And find
What wind
Serves to advance an honest mind.

[faeriemaiden.livejournal.com]

I love that poem so much; I even wrote a melody for it. It's so lovely and surreal and rhythmic.

[builtofsorrow.livejournal.com]

Um. You should record this.

[lady-moriel.livejournal.com]

...Is it really bad that I mostly love that poem in a really geeky way because it's a critical part of Howl's Moving Castle?

[faeriemaiden.livejournal.com]

Well, that was where I first read it, too, so. *shuffles* I really, really, need (and want) to read Howl's Moving Castle again, actually. I just rediscovered how completely brilliant and awesome Diana Wynne Jones is and how happy her style of writing makes me. She's so...British. And cosy.

[faeriemaiden.livejournal.com]

[lady-moriel.livejournal.com]

I know, I was reminded of her when...hm. I think charismitaine mentioned her books for some reason or another and I realized, oh yeah, there are lots of hers I still haven't read and want to, particularly a sequel to Dark Lord of Derkholm which was awesome. So I got out a big stack of her books and am now reading Year of the Griffin, and it just really makes me smile. I'd kind of forgotten how much I liked her too.

You should try downloading the anime of Howl's Moving Castle--they did change a lot of things (the movie has an anti-war tone the book completely lacks, for instance), but it's pretty, and it's a little steampunk too. I saw the English version, and I don't know what the Japanese one with English subtitles is like, but it looks like both are available.

[faeriemaiden.livejournal.com]

Drat you and your useful library! I'll have to get most of mine on loan. Charmed Life and The Lives of Christopher Chant are fabulous, though; my library's got them sandwiched together in a tatty little paperback which is entirely too small for the length it was. (It was best at the end of the first one and the beginning of the second, because then the book actually opened comfortably. The rest, not so much.) But yes. More Diana Wynne Jones is entirely in order.

Eee, yes, I do want to see the anime. When I get the DVD ROM on my laptop up again, I'll have to see if I can order it from Netflix or the library. (Um. You wouldn't know anything about, say, ripping a programme from your computer to a disc and then installing it on another computer again? This would all be so much easier if I could just call "Accio Power DVD!")

[bonny-kathryn.livejournal.com]

I want to hear this. That would be *terrific*.