A Witty Response

Sharing one of my favourite poetic rejoinders by G.K. Chesterton.

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Entertainment

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• poetic
• rejoinder
• poetry
• poem
• gk
• chesterton
• frances
• cornford

[Strollmanx]

What a wonderful representation of Chesterton......as a fan of his I could picture the delight he took in creating this poem. You certainly did it justice. Bravo young lady. May your enthusiasm grow forever.

[TheRavenOfPoe]

Thank you very much, Strollmanx! :)

[Strollmanx]

Chesterton was a prolific writer and in my book a mind like no other. He influences Tolkien and C.S. Lewis. He believed that in order to enjoy life a person needs to be a mystic or else one will be too calculating and ultimately dull and avoided by people on the streets. Despite all of my reading I had never read that poem and although I did not think it was possible my admiration for him has grown even more...saw your music tastes did not see Roxy Music--check out "in every dream home".......

[TheRavenOfPoe]

Second time someone has recommended Roxy Music to me this week..and before that I'd somehow never heard of them! Thank you! :) Will definitely explore their music and that particular song ;)

[deirdreaj1]

BTW, I went rushing off to google, to see if Ms. Cornford made any response to Chesterton -- I didn't see that she had, but I did find a parody of her poem by Housman. It's not nearly as good as Chesterton's, & certainly not as humane, but it did make me laugh. O why do you walk through the fields in boots, Missing so much and so much? O fat white woman whom nobody shoots, Why do you walk through the fields in boots, When the grass is soft as the breast of coots And shiver

[deirdreaj1]

Thank you ~~ this is brilliant!

I hope I can still add a response, all these years later -- I just discovered your vlog yesterday. And I have to admit, I'll have to think a while before I can come up with anything to match this. A specific response to a specific poem just isn't leaping to mind.

However, here's a poetic response to someone's whole opus.

My grasp of what he wrote and meant

Was only five or six %.

The rest was only words and sound--

My reference is to Ezra £.

- Flann O'Brien

[nohonor89]

Although it is not a rejoinder in the literal sense, "The Last of the Light Brigade" by Kipling immediately springs to mind. It is written as a postscript to "The Charge of the Light Brigade" by Tennyson and... well, you'll have to read it to find out exactly what it is.

[AidanTAKFW]

Marcus Valerius Martialis aka Martial, I don't know if he would be quite this same concept, but his poetry consists of witty responses to people both ordinary and those in power in his time.

[Strollmanx]

You may want to steer clear of that particular song. I had forgotten the subject matter but the performance of the song itself is truly unique to say the least. Maybe "Mother of pearl" by Roxy would be better. By the way Raven give Alam Parson's "Tales of mystery and imagination" a listen.............stay well and follow your bliss!