User talk:EcheveriaJ

A Leaf of Grass

   Joy, shipmate, joy!
   (Pleas'd to my soul at death I cry,)
   Our life is closed, our life begins,
   The long, long anchorage we leave,
   The ship is clear at last, she leaps!
   She swiftly courses from the shore,
   Joy, shipmate, joy.

MinorProphet (talk) 02:09, 28 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@MinorProphet: Whitman! The finest of the American poet! O Captain! My Captain! is a really great work, but I always feel uneasy when rhyme is employed heavily in poetry - I always start thinking of William McGonagall and the Tay Bridge Disaster:

...
So the train mov’d slowly along the Bridge of Tay,
Until it was about midway,
Then the central girders with a crash gave way,
And down went the train and passengers into the Tay!
The Storm Fiend did loudly bray,
Because ninety lives had been taken away,
On the last Sabbath day of 1879,
Which will be remember’d for a very long time.

As soon as the catastrophe came to be known
The alarm from mouth to mouth was blown,
And the cry rang out all o’er the town,
Good Heavens! the Tay Bridge is blown down,
And a passenger train from Edinburgh,
Which fill’d all the peoples hearts with sorrow,
And made them for to turn pale,
Because none of the passengers were sav’d to tell the tale
How the disaster happen’d on the last Sabbath day of 1879,
Which will be remember’d for a very long time.
...

Scottish poetry has a lot to answer for... Regards, EcheveriaJ (talk) 19:07, 28 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

McGonall was not a poet, he was a poetaster (rhymes with disaster, same root), and he wrote doggerel, not poems. Genuine Scottish poetry has nothing to be ashamed of. Whitman sometimes sounds as he is writing an encyclopedia rather poems, and he often comes across as the prophet of the Great American Destiny™: but his longer works are the equal of any epic, and when you hold a physical volume of Leaves of Grass in your hand, you know that "Camerado, this is no book; Who touches this touches a man." No other writer I know embodies themselves like this in the printed page, biting his thumb at death. MinorProphet (talk) 19:58, 30 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Apologies for my tardy reply - I was AFK last night, watching Mesrine (2008 film) (not the best film, but Vincent Cassel never fails, in spite of a hasty plot). Agreed that McG doesn't represent genuine Scottish poetry - my train of thought led me to him, and his works always cause a chuckle. EcheveriaJ (talk) 18:16, 31 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Challenge

Why not have a go at (re-)creating the Auriant archive page yourself. I may have messed things up badly. HNY, MinorProphet (talk) 00:17, 31 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Revert, then do? Bien sûr. '(Though, I must admit it looks difficult, that's why I ran from it like the plague. Mais on vera. I will need a drink to get through this.)'. [Franglais mode was accidentally activated - déso, j'ai pas fait exprès]. Thank you for all of your help this year, you have been ever so gracious in explaining all my queries and pointing me in the right direction. Happy New Year when it comes: let's hope 2022 will be kinder than the last two years. EcheveriaJ (talk) 18:26, 31 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@MinorProphet: That seems to have worked a treat, though I'm feeling like there is something I've missed or made a complete dud of. Don't know. It'll no doubt come to me (what I've forgotten to do) at the end of this Hogmanay. I'll be watching the BBC cart out Phil and Allie (violinist and accordionist) until then. Once again, happy new year and thank you for all of your help. EcheveriaJ (talk) 18:45, 31 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Wow, I'm impressed that my sketchy instructions actually worked. Top marks, 10/10, + 1 for luck.
PS All-time best comic duo, Francie and Josie, utterly beloved by the audience. :-) MinorProphet (talk) 00:32, 4 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

2022 is the Year of the Tiger... I'm a Rat. MinorProphet (talk) 00:37, 4 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Francie and Josie were certainly excellent - though I can only enjoy their shows in small doses. A bit like, Only an Excuse? Personally, I prefer Jack and Victor from Still Game and all the pairs from, Chewin' the Fat - maybe that's because they have a greater attachment to real life. J'sais pas. --EcheveriaJ (talk) 20:35, 5 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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