I just read this on my own channel. I absolutely adore DH Lawrence. Thank you so much for reading this. It's nice to hear how each person speaks these poems. Your reading was very calming while mine, admittedly, was very sexual. Perfect fit for Lawrence, I know.
I don't know if this has been remarked, I haven't foraged through all the comments, but I thought it worth pointing out that, in my copy of his collected poems, The last stanza is as follows:
@Piquarian In my collection of DHL poems there is an appendix which has poems that Lawrence revised. I think the revised versions are superior, sometimes considerably so. My favorite poem, Snap-Dragon, I think is far superior to the original version.
I looked for the Voltaire quotation on the web - and can't find it, which is strange. Maybe a long time ago I made it up and attributed it to Voltaire.
I can't place it either, and I can't be quite sure if I've come across it before, or if it just feels that way because it sounds so much like something he'd say.
I have always loved this piece. When I was sixteen I found the thought of Frieda handling David's 'masculine machinery' as comic as it was stimulating. The line doesn't thrill me the way it used to, but then it delights me even more than it did then.
When Lawrence said precisely the same thing but using different words (in Sons and Lovers - and other places) the public hangman burned his books.
Spoken, you wrote: "But it is always the masochist who has control of the relationship - in spite of outward appearances." Not sure I believe that. Might be true, mind you. But not convinced. But great poem as usual, and as always, well spoken, Spoken. Thanks.
I just read this on my own channel. I absolutely adore DH Lawrence. Thank you so much for reading this. It's nice to hear how each person speaks these poems. Your reading was very calming while mine, admittedly, was very sexual. Perfect fit for Lawrence, I know.
GirlonFilm1969 7 months ago
I don't know if this has been remarked, I haven't foraged through all the comments, but I thought it worth pointing out that, in my copy of his collected poems, The last stanza is as follows:
"Maybe yes, and maybe no,
You may have it as you please;
Since you are so keen to know
Everything, Miss Ill-at-ease!"
Piquarian 1 year ago
@Piquarian In my collection of DHL poems there is an appendix which has poems that Lawrence revised. I think the revised versions are superior, sometimes considerably so. My favorite poem, Snap-Dragon, I think is far superior to the original version.
iankyoko 11 months ago
The Voltaire epigram you quote brings to mind these lines from Othello:
They are not ever jealous for the cause, but jealous for they're jealous. '
'Tis a monster
begot upon itself, born upon itself.
polymath7 2 years ago
I looked for the Voltaire quotation on the web - and can't find it, which is strange. Maybe a long time ago I made it up and attributed it to Voltaire.
SpokenVerse 2 years ago
I can't place it either, and I can't be quite sure if I've come across it before, or if it just feels that way because it sounds so much like something he'd say.
polymath7 2 years ago
I have always loved this piece. When I was sixteen I found the thought of Frieda handling David's 'masculine machinery' as comic as it was stimulating. The line doesn't thrill me the way it used to, but then it delights me even more than it did then.
When Lawrence said precisely the same thing but using different words (in Sons and Lovers - and other places) the public hangman burned his books.
thallassocracy 2 years ago
Spoken, you wrote: "But it is always the masochist who has control of the relationship - in spite of outward appearances." Not sure I believe that. Might be true, mind you. But not convinced. But great poem as usual, and as always, well spoken, Spoken. Thanks.
scifiwritir 2 years ago
very good.
jmsimpson11 2 years ago