#80421
09/12/2002 8:33 PM
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There is a specific term for this type of poetry. Can you remember it?(I never heard it before)
From the depth of the dreamy decline of the dawn through a notable nimbus of
nebulous noonshine,
Pallid and pink as the palm of the flag-flower that flickers with fear of the flies as they float,
Are they looks of our lovers that lustrously lean from a marvel of mystic miraculous moonshine,
These that we feel in the blood of our blushes that thicken and threaten with throbs through the throat?
Thicken and thrill as a theatre thronged at appeal of an actor's appalled agitation,
Fainter with fear of the fires of the future than pale with the promise of pride in the past;
Flushed with the famishing fullness of fever that reddens with radiance of rathe recreation,
Gaunt as the ghastliest of glimpses that gleam through the gloom of the gloaming when ghosts go aghast?
Nay, for the nick of the tick of the time is a tremulous touch on the temples of terror,
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#80422
09/12/2002 8:39 PM
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TEd
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#80423
09/12/2002 8:40 PM
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Well, it was by a famous poet parodying himself.
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#80424
09/12/2002 8:44 PM
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It's a poem packed and pressed with piles of poetic projections,
All altruistic alms and awesome alliterations,
But I bemusedly bumble and benightedly balk here
In imcompresensibly initiating any intelligent insight.
I have no idea what type of poem this is, wwh, other than noting the obvious.
Interested in learning what type of poem it is,
WW
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#80425
09/12/2002 9:23 PM
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How can I resist such blandishments? It is by Swinburne, called "Nephelisis" (neph- as in cloudy,
I guess. An example of "amphigouri" also spelled amphigory= a piece of nonsense writing,
a burlesque.
I think the rhetoric terms are such important words that we ought to go back to them until
we begin to remember them.
Another dandy I just noticed "epizeuxis" (sounds like a loathesome disease)
O dark,dark,dark, amid the blaze of day (from Milton)
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#80426
09/12/2002 9:33 PM
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Howya wwh and all
Do ya want me ta name the type of pome or ta type ta name of pome? Either way I'm stumped.
be seein ya
GT
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#80427
09/12/2002 9:37 PM
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#80428
09/12/2002 11:55 PM
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Do ya want me ta name the type of pome or ta type ta name of pome? Either way I'm stumped. ~ GT Goodness gracious Gallant, if a million monkeys can master through tedious typing through time, the splendid sonorous sonnets, songs, and stories of Shakespeare, surely Ted the teddy can type a teenie title of the sweet sop of Swinburne.  be seeing ya,
~ GT Now Gallant don't you go pulling that "be seeing ya" routine on the fine educated people of this board, because now we've all seen your picture. And let me tell you, Teddy Boy, you are smarter than you look.
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#80429
09/13/2002 12:40 AM
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Howya Mil
Me mischevious mate
This swishing Swinburn sonneteer
Me senses ne'er sampled afore,
Til the wizardry of Dr W wised me up.
As fer yer reference ta the fantastic
Photysnap, made in me immaculate image,
Is it a paw sangwich yer looken fer
Or what?
Be seein ya
GallantTed (Hansum Bear)
Note: no tedsaurus was abused in the composen of this pome
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#80430
09/13/2002 1:53 AM
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Note: no tedsaurus was abused in the composen of this pomeExcept for, maybe, a TEdremingtonosaurus! 
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#80431
09/13/2002 8:56 AM
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amphigory= a piece of nonsense writingAh, I recall this term, as I always liked the sound of it. I thought it meant "flowery" rather than plain nonsensical though. It is by SwinburneHmmm, don't I recall that Swinburne was absolutely slated by others - John Donne or Alexamder Pope or someone in particular? Might imply that his "straight" poetry is just as crap as "Nephelisis".  Will LIU...
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#80432
09/13/2002 10:24 AM
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thought it meant "flowery" rather than plain nonsensical though.
And I always thought it had a connotation of seeming to go somewhere but never quite making it. Edward Gorey's Willowdale Handcar was, to me, a classic example.
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#80433
09/14/2002 5:11 PM
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It's certainly full of alliterations.
But looking at the rhyming structure:
A B A B
C D C D
E
It resembles a Shakespearean sonnet which follows:
A B A B
C D C D
E F E F
G H G H
I I
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#80434
09/14/2002 5:38 PM
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Shakespearean sonnet: Three quatrains and a couplet.
Isn't there an extra quatrain here, A&O?
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#80436
09/16/2002 9:21 AM
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Also Mrs Regera Dowdy and Ogdred Weary.
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#80437
09/16/2002 6:52 PM
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Shakespearean sonnet: Three quatrains and a couplet.
Isn't there an extra quatrain here, A&O?
I believe you're right slithytoves.
My appologies for my mistake.
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#80438
09/16/2002 7:11 PM
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Dear A&O: and what pray tell, was the orangin of your need for apple-ology?
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