A remarkable poem. Philip
>From: Ryfkah * <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: The Pennine Poetry Works <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: paradise (philip)
>Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2002 23:55:29 EDT
>
>Thank you for your remarkable insights.
>
>kol tuv, Ryfkah
>
>
>In a message dated 10.15.02 3:57:30 PM, [log in to unmask] writes:
>
><< Hi Ryfkah,
>
>Your poem reads really well. The disonant sounds echo 'the times out of
>joint', the individuals hammered into the ground by war and its aftermath
>
>This a poem of great scope which its spare form conveys with the powers of
>the few well chosen words, so it feels like a skeleton marching.
>
>to 'tramp to paradise' is both original and ironic and carries the weight
>of
>'neither/ hope nor despair' forward very powerfully. There is a feeling of
>closure as you revisit the start image of 'mud sploshing' in your 'tramp
>to...'.
>
>The poem lives in my memory. My uncle,Taddy Goledskinovski, was a Pole and
>escaped from concentration camp, making his way to England to join The
>Royal
>Air Force. Years later I learned that the concentration camp was in Eastern
>Poland, ie was Russian. And that his escape route took him entirely through
>German occupied Poland. Though he never talked about any of this. One
>imagines what he suffered.
>
>Incidently, my father-in-law was freed from a prisoner of war camp in 1945
>starved badly and describes graphically how he nearly died from chocolate
>and other American well-meaning food forcing.
>
>Truly, Philip >>
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