A friend (Tim Smith) and I have recently translated the Iliad into limericks and you can find that here.
http://limerickiliad.blogspot.com/
We are on the 12th book of the Odyssey and I'll keep everyone informed.
We did the Iliad in 11 days -- a few hours a day. I wonder how long it took Homer?
We were inspired by someone who is translating the Inferno into limericks but he seems to be taking forever. And his translation doesn't seem that funny.
Joe
You'll find several characters and situations not in the original.
After the Odyssey we're doing "A Christmas Carol."
MC Ward <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
Hear, hear! A pome!
Candice
--- kasper salonen wrote:
> joe, all else aside, that's one cracking poem
>
> KS
>
> On 09/06/07, joe green wrote:
> > "Slumbrous" did her spirit steal.
> > I had no earthy fears:
> > For I stayed up this summer night
> > Nursing just two beers
> > And reading Shelley's letters
> > And Dorothy Wordsworth's diary
> > And packing up my sweaters
> > For the lonesome highway.
> > Farewell, anon! My Life, my Death!
> > Now she is so free.
> > A Gilthoniel Elbereth!
> > The difference to me.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Joseph Duemer wrote: Alison
> Croggon has just signed off Poetryetc. Presumably
> everyone saw her
> > farewell message. I would simply note that over
> the last 24 hours Alison
> > insulted the entire list membership three times:
> >
> > 1. "I thought it was a given that no opinion
> rehearsed here has the
> > imprimatur of Divine Right. I only claim my own
> sensibility. I have reasons
> > for thinking as I do, and if questioned I will
> tell you what those reasons
> > are. I thought that this process was known as
> "discussion"; and certainly
> > during the many years I ran this list, it was
> described as a "discussion
> > list". Perhaps things have changed while I was
> looking elsewhere."
> >
> > This came in as a response to an utterly
> inoffensive post that happened to
> > take issue with something Alison had written.
> >
> > 2. "Slumbrous"
> >
> > That is Alison's characterization, just now, of
> this lively, interesting &
> > unwieldy amalgam of personalities.
> >
> > 3. "[Poetryetc] seems to have become so closed."
> >
> > I hadn't noticed this new uptight & closed
> Poetryetc myself. Had you?
> >
> > To Alison's friends & admirers, I would say that I
> am sorry it came to this,
> > but personally I found her bullying, hectoring
> style of argumentation, in
> > which she simply waved away those who disagreed
> with her & then changed the
> > subject or repeated what she had already said (at
> greater length) tiresome.
> > I have seldom run across a more humorless
> personality online. I think she
> > regretted giving up ownership of the list. I do
> not regret her decision to
> > leave.
> >
> > Joseph Duemer
> > Poetryetc Co-Mgr.
> >
> >
> >
> > ---------------------------------
> > You snooze, you lose. Get messages ASAP with
> AutoCheck
> > in the all-new Yahoo! Mail Beta.
> >
>
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