On Sunday, May 29, 2022 at 6:29:50 PM UTC-4, george...@yahoo.ca wrote:
> On 2022-05-29 2:09 p.m., Will Dockery wrote:
> > On Sunday, May 29, 2022 at 12:06:30 PM UTC-4, george...@yahoo.ca wrote:
> >>
> >> Today's poem on Penny's Poetry Blog:
> >> It Is Not Always May, by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
> >> [...]
> >> Maiden, that read'st this simple rhyme,
> >> Enjoy thy youth, it will not stay;
> >> Enjoy the fragrance of thy prime,
> >> For O! it is not always May!
> >> [...]
> >> https://gdancesbetty.blogspot.com/2022/05/it-is-not-always-may-henry-wadsworth.html
> >
> > Okay, this is interesting[...] even [with] such a famous poet as Longfellow, how well known is his poetry to [the] general public of modern times?
>
> I edited your question, because some people on the group seemed to have
> difficulty understanding it.
>
> I suspect the answer is very little. I know a few Longfellow poems, but
> I could state you only a few lines from memory. "Footprints on the sands
> of time" from "Psalm of Life", and almost an entire stanza of Paul Revere:
>
> Listen, my children, and you shall hear
> Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere.
> It was [something, something] in '75;
> Hardly a man is still alive
> Who remembers that famous day and year."
>
> Even poetry students don't encounter his work: he's in none of the
> anthologies I own, for example. I suspect that's a style thing; he wrote
> (1) popular poems with easily-understood messages, in (2) formal verse,
> both of which went out of style over 100 years ago. Why today's
> academics are still using stylistic judgements from 100 years ago,
> rather than making their own, is more of a mystery.

Hi there well said......

Zod wrote:

> On Sunday, May 29, 2022 at 6:29:50 PM UTC-4, george...@yahoo.ca wrote:
>> On 2022-05-29 2:09 p.m., Will Dockery wrote:
>> > On Sunday, May 29, 2022 at 12:06:30 PM UTC-4, george...@yahoo.ca wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Today's poem on Penny's Poetry Blog:
>> >> It Is Not Always May, by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
>> >> [...]
>> >> Maiden, that read'st this simple rhyme,
>> >> Enjoy thy youth, it will not stay;
>> >> Enjoy the fragrance of thy prime,
>> >> For O! it is not always May!
>> >> [...]
>> >> https://gdancesbetty.blogspot.com/2022/05/it-is-not-always-may-henry-wadsworth.html
>> >
>> > Okay, this is interesting[...] even [with] such a famous poet as Longfellow, how well known is his poetry to [the] general public of modern times?
>>
>> I edited your question, because some people on the group seemed to have
>> difficulty understanding it.
>>
>> I suspect the answer is very little. I know a few Longfellow poems, but
>> I could state you only a few lines from memory. "Footprints on the sands
>> of time" from "Psalm of Life", and almost an entire stanza of Paul Revere:
>>
>> Listen, my children, and you shall hear
>> Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere.
>> It was [something, something] in '75;
>> Hardly a man is still alive
>> Who remembers that famous day and year."
>>
>> Even poetry students don't encounter his work: he's in none of the
>> anthologies I own, for example. I suspect that's a style thing; he wrote
>> (1) popular poems with easily-understood messages, in (2) formal verse,
>> both of which went out of style over 100 years ago. Why today's
>> academics are still using stylistic judgements from 100 years ago,
>> rather than making their own, is more of a mystery.

> Hi there well said......

Good evening my friend, hope you and Mike are having a great one.

🙂