Comments on: poet = thermometer http://amandafrench.net/2008/01/03/poet-thermometer/ Professional site of Amanda L. French, Ph.D. -- digital humanities teaching, training, research, writing, unconference organizing, and web development Wed, 25 Aug 2010 18:29:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Amanda French http://amandafrench.net/2008/01/03/poet-thermometer/comment-page-1/#comment-8 Amanda French Sun, 06 Jan 2008 00:49:00 +0000 http://amandafrench.wordpress.com/2008/01/03/poet-thermometer/#comment-8 nm, I didn't know that, or rather, I think I read it once but I forgot all about it. Is your favorite poet Auden or Yeats? Auden would edge Yeats out, for me. nm, I didn’t know that, or rather, I think I read it once but I forgot all about it. Is your favorite poet Auden or Yeats? Auden would edge Yeats out, for me.

]]> By: nm http://amandafrench.net/2008/01/03/poet-thermometer/comment-page-1/#comment-7 nm Sat, 05 Jan 2008 00:22:00 +0000 http://amandafrench.wordpress.com/2008/01/03/poet-thermometer/#comment-7 The line about the instruments is even more remarkable to contemplate when you realize that in the originally-published version of the poem, it was: "O, all the instruments agree" -- Auden realized that he was turning the instruments into actors, not instruments. The change he made ties the measurement of/reaction to Yeats's death into just what it is that poetry does: it makes nothing happen, it does not act, but it records and survives. My favorite poet.<br/><br/>Oh, and I'm also here via Chris Clarke. Good stuff! The line about the instruments is even more remarkable to contemplate when you realize that in the originally-published version of the poem, it was: “O, all the instruments agree” — Auden realized that he was turning the instruments into actors, not instruments. The change he made ties the measurement of/reaction to Yeats’s death into just what it is that poetry does: it makes nothing happen, it does not act, but it records and survives. My favorite poet.

Oh, and I’m also here via Chris Clarke. Good stuff!

]]> By: J. K. Gayle http://amandafrench.net/2008/01/03/poet-thermometer/comment-page-1/#comment-6 J. K. Gayle Thu, 03 Jan 2008 22:58:00 +0000 http://amandafrench.wordpress.com/2008/01/03/poet-thermometer/#comment-6 Smart, amazing stuff. The poetry telling us what's happening, I mean. And your dissertation touching modern life, and your effectively digesting Aristotle through Eliot's stomach. Write more, please. We'll read!<br/><br/>PS found you via <a HREF="http://www.faultline.org/" REL="nofollow">Chris Clarke</a> via <a HREF="http://hugoschwyzer.net/2008/01/03/feminism-marketing-evangelism-inclusion/" REL="nofollow">Hugo Schwyzer</a>, whom was recommended to me by Sappho or somebody. Smart, amazing stuff. The poetry telling us what’s happening, I mean. And your dissertation touching modern life, and your effectively digesting Aristotle through Eliot’s stomach. Write more, please. We’ll read!

PS found you via Chris Clarke via Hugo Schwyzer, whom was recommended to me by Sappho or somebody.

]]> By: Sue Swift http://amandafrench.net/2008/01/03/poet-thermometer/comment-page-1/#comment-5 Sue Swift Thu, 03 Jan 2008 21:22:00 +0000 http://amandafrench.wordpress.com/2008/01/03/poet-thermometer/#comment-5 Amanda - though I studied and loved Yeats for five years between school and college (and have gone back to him many times since) I had never come acros Auden's elegy. And I can't understand why, as I have read much else of Auden - though admittedly not to anything like the same depth. The elegy is wonderful. It describes Yeats, it analyses him and it echoes him. And is a wonderful poem itself. Thank you for drawing my attention to it. Amanda – though I studied and loved Yeats for five years between school and college (and have gone back to him many times since) I had never come acros Auden’s elegy. And I can’t understand why, as I have read much else of Auden – though admittedly not to anything like the same depth. The elegy is wonderful. It describes Yeats, it analyses him and it echoes him. And is a wonderful poem itself. Thank you for drawing my attention to it.

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