Thanks for this Sally. I think I might go in a fun direction as the original
here is not sure of itself at all.



bw
James




>From: Sally Evans <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: The Pennine Poetry Works <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: New sub: What's In A Name
>Date: Sat, 11 Dec 2004 17:34:23 +0000
>
>HI James  I think there's a tangle here if you are going to be serious
>about
>it, but you could equally well treat it as a fun poem in which the logic
>doesnt relly matter. Galileo would not be a strange name where G came from.
>Columbus was Cristoforo Colombo - we anglicised him. I assume Colombo means
>Dove, so it was Chris Dove that did the sailing and -
>well, why dont Galileo anglicise? Any suggestions?
>
>Columbus sailed the ocean blue
>is about as fixed in our minds as Galileo/telescope,certainly so you do
>have
>a point.
>
>bw
>SallyE
>
>
>on 11/12/04 1:16 pm, James Bell at [log in to unmask] wrote:
>
> > Not sure about this one, which is why we post them. Its an odd one for
>me so
> > comments very welcome.
> >
> > WHAT'S IN A NAME?
> >
> > Galileo. The name is familiar
> > as a name in a song that,
> > by admission means little,
> > though there was a time
> > when a man possessed it,
> > was called it by friends
> > wife, daughter, was asked
> > to drink wine by it, was given
> > it by a mother just like most
> > everyone who is a little more
> > obscure. These thoughts
> > telescope, refract like a lens
> > like a pluck of a strained
> > mandolin just after Christopher
> > Columbus discovered the
> > Americas, improvised within
> > a novel by Trollope in another
> > time, sung in a ballad that sounds
> > famililiar and too belongs in
> > another time though evokes
> > the usual responses in the way
> > John Ashbery decided to have
> > obsidian pools in a poem in
> > the way telescopes and Galileo
> > forever go together
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > bw
> > James