I wonder, Fred, if maybe it's possible to read & enjoy these poems
without necessarily hearing the march in them. Or.
Don't want to miss too much, it's true, but undoubtedly do anyway, in
only a single life....
Doug
On 9-Nov-07, at 2:37 PM, Frederick Pollack wrote:
> and Pushkin, Lermontov, Carducci, Uhland, Blok, Macdiarmid, Neruda,
> Becher, Biermann ...
>
> Might also mention that the last, choral movement of Beethoven's
> Ninth, words by Schiller, is a march.
>
> And if you want to avoid the following, or the elan that gave rise to
> it, you're welcome to. But I think that an aesthetic that can't strike
> this note, or can't imagine striking it, is missing something.
>
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