Ken,
Was just presenting it for general discussion. When
I read it, I remembered a friend centuries ago, a West
Point Grad, who actually cme nd asked me about poetry,
because, as a class they had viewed "Patton", and were
especially taken with those romantic moments, when
Patton as George C. Scott, spoke with muscle and
eloquence of poetry... and of "being a poet". That, in its
way, held something for them. And as much as they are
to spend hours reading the "classics", why not t least
the poetry that accompanies it all?
Gerald S.
> Something curious to this thread. Correct me if I'm wrong, but the
> assumption behind thread has never been defined. One can only assume
> what we are expected to assume?
>
> The reigning assumption du jour seems to be that apes should receive
> their allotment of bananas and not allowed near typewriters lest they
> accept the risk of one day writing Hamlet. Therefore, to give a poem to
> a military cadet is a great disturbance in the Force, y'might say--an
> insult to the order of things in which all soldiers are morons and all
> poets are men and women of the highest moral standing.
>
> KW
>
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> Kenneth Wolman rainermaria.typepad.com
>
> "I agree with the Chekhov character who, when in a crisis, he is
> reminded that 'this, too, shall pass,' responds 'Nothing
> passes.'"--Philip Roth
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