Comments on: Sad Strains of a Gay Waltz http://mindofwinter.org/2004/10/23/sad-strains-of-a-gay-waltz/ A forum for discussing poems and poetry Mon, 01 Dec 2008 21:20:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 By: Michael http://mindofwinter.org/2004/10/23/sad-strains-of-a-gay-waltz/#comment-44 Michael Tue, 26 Oct 2004 18:22:56 +0000 http://mindofwinter.org/2004/10/23/sad-strains-of-a-gay-waltz/#comment-44 I do wish we were able to meet as a group and discuss this poem. It's selfish, you see---I don't understand a word of the poem and could use the help deciphering it. I've read it several times now, and it's all amphigory and nephelidia to me. I'm sure, though, a nice hour's discussion would at least lead me to think that I could draw some sense from it. It happened several times before with other poems... Good to see you're still alive! <blockquote class="verse"> <h3 class="poemtitle">from Portrait of a Lady</h3> <h4 class="byline">by T.S. Eliot</h4> <p class="stanza"> We have been, let us say, to hear the latest Pole Transmit the Preludes, through his hair and finger-tips. "So intimate, this Chopin, that I think his soul Should be resurrected only among friends Some two or three, who will not touch the bloom That is rubbed and questioned in the concert room." </p> </blockquote> I do wish we were able to meet as a group and discuss this poem. It’s selfish, you see—I don’t understand a word of the poem and could use the help deciphering it. I’ve read it several times now, and it’s all amphigory and nephelidia to me. I’m sure, though, a nice hour’s discussion would at least lead me to think that I could draw some sense from it. It happened several times before with other poems…

Good to see you’re still alive!

from Portrait of a Lady

by T.S. Eliot

We have been, let us say, to hear the latest Pole
Transmit the Preludes, through his hair and finger-tips.
“So intimate, this Chopin, that I think his soul
Should be resurrected only among friends
Some two or three, who will not touch the bloom
That is rubbed and questioned in the concert room.”

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