05-11-2021, 02:25 AM
Thanks, TqB.
There's quite a lot to do in tree surgery at the moment, but I'll take a look soon. I get tired sometimes, because I'm over a hundred years old.
In the meantime, here are a few thoughts on the sonnet.
I'm not overly keen on minimal punctuation, because it takes away my enjoyment of reading.
As soon as I encounter 'me too' in line 1, I think of the Me Too movement, which is a distraction.
'Fact' reminds me of Claudia Winkleman, and it's odd to hear CW out of context.
I like the internal rhyme of 'lose' and 'blues'.
The sentence beginning 'Skeptical still' is more interesting than anything that comes before it. I think the quotation marks each side of the fairy tale title could be deleted, to fit with the lack of punctuation everywhere else.
The 'Scratching myself bloody' bit is okay too.
I'm a bit lost towards the end, and the French/German vocab suggests that Seuss is an academic who's experimenting with her writing. It's just a bit bizarre.
This isn't a fashionable interpretation, I'm sure, but that doesn't bother me. I still prefer a lot of the stuff I've read on PigPen, including your 'Spring Lament'. That was good, because it felt honest; it was you. The Seuss sonnet doesn't feel true.
There's quite a lot to do in tree surgery at the moment, but I'll take a look soon. I get tired sometimes, because I'm over a hundred years old.
In the meantime, here are a few thoughts on the sonnet.
I'm not overly keen on minimal punctuation, because it takes away my enjoyment of reading.
As soon as I encounter 'me too' in line 1, I think of the Me Too movement, which is a distraction.
'Fact' reminds me of Claudia Winkleman, and it's odd to hear CW out of context.
I like the internal rhyme of 'lose' and 'blues'.
The sentence beginning 'Skeptical still' is more interesting than anything that comes before it. I think the quotation marks each side of the fairy tale title could be deleted, to fit with the lack of punctuation everywhere else.
The 'Scratching myself bloody' bit is okay too.
I'm a bit lost towards the end, and the French/German vocab suggests that Seuss is an academic who's experimenting with her writing. It's just a bit bizarre.
This isn't a fashionable interpretation, I'm sure, but that doesn't bother me. I still prefer a lot of the stuff I've read on PigPen, including your 'Spring Lament'. That was good, because it felt honest; it was you. The Seuss sonnet doesn't feel true.
All best,
Leaf
Leaf