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Guinevere · 01-08-2012, 11:20 AM

I absolutetly adore FC's poem! It's so funny with all those additions by the squabbling PB and Ilbereth!

Perhaps this is no "literary poetry", but I actually think it is much more deserving of the title "poem" than modern so-called poems which don't rhyme, have no rythm at all and are in reality just prose, written in short lines!!
(a propos funny poems, I am a bit reminded of Christian Morgenstern...don't know if you know him, Esty)

Legate of Amon Lanc · 01-08-2012, 01:10 PM

Thanks for the examples, Esty! Anyway I think I will make it one of my objectives to get some English (and most of all, complete) edition of FC...

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Originally Posted by Guinevere

(a propos funny poems, I am a bit reminded of Christian Morgenstern...don't know if you know him, Esty)

Everybody has to know him! Some of his poems have even been translated (yes, translating such kind of poems... but good for me, since I don't know any German) - and only as a curiosity, since I'm already talking about this, several of the translations had been even put into music by one Czech band, for instance: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAGTF7ev5sA

Guinevere · 01-08-2012, 03:49 PM

I scanned the facsimile of the poem and try to give a link to it (with the help of my husband & son) I hope this works, I think you have to click on it to enlarge it.

01-08-2012, 11:20 AM	#1
Guinevere Banshee of Camelot Join Date: May 2002 Location: Switzerland Posts: 5,830	I absolutetly adore FC's poem! It's so funny with all those additions by the squabbling PB and Ilbereth! Perhaps this is no "literary poetry", but I actually think it is much more deserving of the title "poem" than modern so-called poems which don't rhyme, have no rythm at all and are in reality just prose, written in short lines!! (a propos funny poems, I am a bit reminded of Christian Morgenstern...don't know if you know him, Esty) __________________ Yes! "wish-fulfilment dreams" we spin to cheat our timid hearts, and ugly Fact defeat! Last edited by Guinevere; 01-08-2012 at 03:54 PM. Reason: got a word wrong.I meant squabble, not quibble

01-08-2012, 03:49 PM	#3
Guinevere Banshee of Camelot Join Date: May 2002 Location: Switzerland Posts: 5,830	I scanned the facsimile of the poem and try to give a link to it (with the help of my husband & son) I hope this works, I think you have to click on it to enlarge it. __________________ Yes! "wish-fulfilment dreams" we spin to cheat our timid hearts, and ugly Fact defeat!