FascinatinRhythms(Pt1): The Sapphic Appendix-NormanB

[desertjournalonline]

John Lenin exercised good judgment when he went from dope to rope. I mean, dope should be for those who suffer excruciating pain. Rope is for people like me who must be aware of pain (somewhat) and therefore avoid masking it with pain killers, risking death.

[hausenharry]

might be drunk

but not stupid

you are A ok!!!

[medicinesocks]

lol norm's a lot of things but not much of a drinker. regards from the one who sets up the camera for norman's videos, yr friend and his, rachel. we like your videos a lot, and we watched them cold sober... ;o) ( i don't drink alcohol very often either. do you?)

[lobstfeld]

I haven't heard it explained in this way before. Love it.

[DClaudeKatz]

Very interesting. I'm familiar with the Sapphic stanza form, metrically speaking, but it never occurred to me that it has an emotional pattern as well as a metrical one.

[medicinesocks]

i sometimes write performance poems in MY version of sapphic rhythm. posted now is See the Homeric Hymn to Demeter, and others will be soon. i find homer's mighty lines (when told with rhythm as in Lattimore's trans.) inspire reverence. sonnets feel like normal day to day speech. alliterative rhyming quatrains are joyfully singing. then there are half rhymes and internal rhymes and multi-syllabic ("feminine") rhymes - i love those, but they don't get as much respect.

[eaglecrowowl]

very interesting and informative. I didn't know a lot about this.

[cruciferum]

Actually, around the middle of the vid, Norm is doing about the same thing, sticking 3 sentences together... leaving a sec's gap... and finishing his thought. An interesting piece of info, for all you dirty minds, is that the word lesbian, referred to (and hence, originated from its use for) Sappho. She was from Lesbos (get it? My father's from Lesbos too. Irrelevant) and many believe she was a lesbian. I, personally, don't care.

[cruciferum]

Hmm, I have some of Sappho's pieces in prototype. I hope I'll find the time to read them. Oh and, Mrs. Socks, my resignation probably lies somewhere in my boss's garbage bin!

[medicinesocks]

cruciferum-- we each have to decide what we think is the right thing to do... then it takes real courage sometimes to do it! congratulations for having the strength of your convictions! norm says he can hardly wait to hear the poetry in its original language! me too! oh good!

[DEATHINKING]

superstar

[medicinesocks]

yup

[bigeeezy]

fascinating

[julesandmax]

:-) Interesting! Just found my Sappho on my bookshelf; I've got Mary Barnard's translation too. Thanks for the reading recommendations too, I will check those out.