tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post8917137705330880052..comments2024-03-28T11:45:50.742+00:00Comments on Yorkshire Pudding: DrowningYorkshire Puddinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06019673884543913089noreply@blogger.comBlogger20125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-39605942082057954252022-01-18T12:41:53.123+00:002022-01-18T12:41:53.123+00:00There's something about it that I find quite h...There's something about it that I find quite haunting. I guess it is the ambiguity that gets me.Yorkshire Puddinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06019673884543913089noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-59428509658072915552022-01-18T12:30:16.979+00:002022-01-18T12:30:16.979+00:00Oddly, YP, I blogged about that poem in 2009 here....Oddly, YP, I blogged about that poem in 2009 <i><a href="https://galenote.blogspot.com/2009/08/something-happened-other-day-i-cant.html" rel="nofollow">here</a></i>.Graham Edwardshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11196744947133121475noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-84021095035948626492022-01-18T09:57:46.240+00:002022-01-18T09:57:46.240+00:00I will go there. Thanks.I will go there. Thanks.Yorkshire Puddinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06019673884543913089noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-69222978095961858592022-01-18T09:57:19.582+00:002022-01-18T09:57:19.582+00:00She cut a rather tragic figure I think. I am glad ...She cut a rather tragic figure I think. I am glad that this poem endures and that a part of her has sailed into what was her future but is our present. I would like to see that film. Glenda Jackson has been an outstanding actress for decades.Yorkshire Puddinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06019673884543913089noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-3974659994334754182022-01-18T09:54:15.142+00:002022-01-18T09:54:15.142+00:00Sometimes it is good to just put a poem out there ...Sometimes it is good to just put a poem out there for others to consider. If I had affixed my own reflections they would have affected the natural responses of other readers. Yorkshire Puddinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06019673884543913089noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-47671590004228201062022-01-18T09:51:31.776+00:002022-01-18T09:51:31.776+00:00One could also be simply exercising.One could also be simply exercising.Yorkshire Puddinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06019673884543913089noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-11008547247220263082022-01-18T09:51:05.364+00:002022-01-18T09:51:05.364+00:00You make your own meaning. This is a deliberately ...You make your own meaning. This is a deliberately ambiguous poem I think.Yorkshire Puddinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06019673884543913089noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-3604519960656923262022-01-18T09:49:53.113+00:002022-01-18T09:49:53.113+00:00And where is the difference?And where is the difference?Yorkshire Puddinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06019673884543913089noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-86522220167315264502022-01-18T09:49:30.306+00:002022-01-18T09:49:30.306+00:00I'm glad that it resonated with you Nurse Lily...I'm glad that it resonated with you Nurse Lily.Yorkshire Puddinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06019673884543913089noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-54409042638172600402022-01-18T09:49:00.293+00:002022-01-18T09:49:00.293+00:00You mean you saw her handwritten version with amen...You mean you saw her handwritten version with amendments? So cool.Yorkshire Puddinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06019673884543913089noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-53274014146266394962022-01-18T09:48:20.905+00:002022-01-18T09:48:20.905+00:00It is her most admired poem and one that endures. ...It is her most admired poem and one that endures. A lot has been written about it. You could search for analyses if you were so inclined Andrew.Yorkshire Puddinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06019673884543913089noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-23652257626817441712022-01-18T09:07:39.252+00:002022-01-18T09:07:39.252+00:00If I was drowning and waving, it would be because ...If I was drowning and waving, it would be because I was trying to attract attention in the hope of being rescued from my inevitable fate.<br />No, not something for a Monday morning YP, it makes a rather depressing start to the week. The lack of comments says it all. Coppa's girlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16459503600694841117noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-64728654196359593892022-01-17T18:02:20.934+00:002022-01-17T18:02:20.934+00:00I suppose one could be waving AND drowning...?I suppose one could be waving AND drowning...?Steve Reedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11684120060438252945noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-4220945413514925992022-01-17T17:57:30.387+00:002022-01-17T17:57:30.387+00:00I read it fast first time. I read it slower the s...I read it fast first time. I read it slower the second time. I was able to take a bite of each word the third time. How sad some people seem to think their lives are. How truly sad and unforgiving some lives really, truly are. I didn't expect this from you on a beautiful Monday morning, my friend. But, I am glad that I explored the meaning (at least to me) of this short poem.Peace Thymehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17361079101751470855noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-78629296893973882372022-01-17T14:53:31.824+00:002022-01-17T14:53:31.824+00:00Hmmmm...
I think many of us are not waving, but dr...Hmmmm...<br />I think many of us are not waving, but drowning. Ms. Moonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09776404747858099919noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-91392238651751564222022-01-17T13:27:16.237+00:002022-01-17T13:27:16.237+00:00I often feel like that. Thanks for sharing this p...I often feel like that. Thanks for sharing this poem.Pixiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01313413260127376288noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-87150962146203965912022-01-17T11:32:00.414+00:002022-01-17T11:32:00.414+00:00From 'ull. Once saw the original ms on display...From 'ull. Once saw the original ms on display in 'ull university library. Tasker Dunhamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17634612033217902946noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-4149775976979508292022-01-17T07:55:01.054+00:002022-01-17T07:55:01.054+00:00Rather cryptic. Rather cryptic. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-67209711135979995762022-01-17T03:02:13.199+00:002022-01-17T03:02:13.199+00:00YouTube.
Glenda Jackson Reads Stevie Smith Part 1/...YouTube.<br />Glenda Jackson Reads Stevie Smith Part 1/2 and Part 2/2.Haggertyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03878998597580981583noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-65874313574608292202022-01-17T02:42:55.170+00:002022-01-17T02:42:55.170+00:00*I was much too far out all my life.*
We're a...*I was much too far out all my life.*<br /><br />We're all out of our depth, every time we watch the News.<br />Stevie Smith gave us this picture of a man going down, dragged by the current, drugged by the coldness of the ocean, which he underestimated. <br /><br />Stevie Smith (1902-1971) wrote a funny eccentric story, *Novel on Yellow Paper* (1936) which catches the flavour of the long Thirties as much Auden, MacNeice, Waugh, Greene, Orwell, Rosamond Lehmann, Huxley, Isherwood, Patrick Hamilton. <br />Many saw the war coming. Left-wingers saw Marxism as the way to fight Fascism.<br />The Popular Front was penetrated by Stalin's agents. It's all in Stevie's poem.<br /><br />Stevie Smith was Florence Margaret Smith.<br />Glenda Jackson played her in a film, *Stevie* scripted by Hugh Whitemore.<br /><br />Wander around Palmers Green, London, with her Selected Poems in your pocket and you might just catch her friendly ghost. <br />She liked libraries, parks and churches.Haggertyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03878998597580981583noreply@blogger.com