12-07-2011, 09:02 AM
Whether or not it is 'high art', it is written with a smile, and gives a smile. No doubt it is not as easy to put to-gether as at first appears, if only because of extra rhymes in the ist and third lines.
Poetry is different, and comes from different places. It has the popular appeal of Kipling in his day (and now, with that 'If..'), and folk of that class. It does not profit a person to compare it with, say, Ted Hughes or Ezra Pound, whether one likes them or him, or not. Just different. I suppose there must be recordings by him?
PS How do you pronounce his name? Patt, or Pate?
Poetry is different, and comes from different places. It has the popular appeal of Kipling in his day (and now, with that 'If..'), and folk of that class. It does not profit a person to compare it with, say, Ted Hughes or Ezra Pound, whether one likes them or him, or not. Just different. I suppose there must be recordings by him?
PS How do you pronounce his name? Patt, or Pate?