tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14261952.post8575493644100066966..comments2024-03-25T13:40:30.747-04:00Comments on Faith and Theology: On flying over Arizona on a clear day: a sonnetBen Myershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03800127501735910966noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14261952.post-56641162570349010362007-01-10T17:03:00.000-05:002007-01-10T17:03:00.000-05:00I actually enjoyed the poem very much....thanks fo...I actually enjoyed the poem very much....thanks for sharing.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14261952.post-26381941196056518732007-01-10T13:23:00.000-05:002007-01-10T13:23:00.000-05:00Hi Ben.
"The Tyger" - how appropriate: It's the P...Hi Ben.<br /><br />"The Tyger" - how appropriate: It's the Princeton Tigers, isn't it?<br /><br />And re. the "Miltonic" - I almost went for a line ending "supersonic"!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14261952.post-22277585331845554832007-01-10T09:53:00.000-05:002007-01-10T09:53:00.000-05:00Actually, it was meant to be a cross between Milto...Actually, it was meant to be a cross between Milton, Blake and Hopkins -- especially Blake (cf. "The Tyger": "...what dread hands and what dread feet?"). In any case, it's clear that Kim is the true poet here: who else could have rhymed "Miltonic"?<br /><br />Princeton is lovely -- the first snow of the season just started falling as I was crossing the street this morning.Ben Myershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03800127501735910966noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14261952.post-34910445937333058622007-01-10T08:01:00.000-05:002007-01-10T08:01:00.000-05:00Hi Michael. Well, Ben's a Milton scholar. Beside...Hi Michael. Well, Ben's a Milton scholar. Besides, try rhyming "Hopkinsian"!<br /><br />And David - what, R.S. in God's adversary, a "machine", and heading to the national embodiment of that cosumerism he so loathed?! Mind, he admired the sense of national identity in many American poets.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14261952.post-80998416519124384322007-01-10T06:49:00.000-05:002007-01-10T06:49:00.000-05:00I think there's a touch of RS Thomas... This is wh...I think there's a touch of RS Thomas... This is what he might have sounded like if he'd abandonned the damp hills for a ride in a jumbo jet above the badlands.David Williamsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15336069872848288062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14261952.post-76419300539015816282007-01-10T06:40:00.000-05:002007-01-10T06:40:00.000-05:00Hmm. Miltonic, not Hopkinsian?
('ah, bright wings'...Hmm. Miltonic, not Hopkinsian?<br />('ah, bright wings')?michael jensenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15379361601019023165noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14261952.post-34576064509907245722007-01-09T08:13:00.000-05:002007-01-09T08:13:00.000-05:00Yet FSU was not the victor in the game, it was the...Yet FSU was not the victor in the game, it was their dreaded rival the Florida Gators.<br /><br />Funny how 3 posts deal with football (american), in a poem by Ben. Doesn't he love sport?<br /><br />Ben, give yourself some credit...say a panentheist, not pantheist.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14261952.post-15232677093051564432007-01-09T05:31:00.000-05:002007-01-09T05:31:00.000-05:00BTW, when is it NOT a clear day over Arizona? The...BTW, when is it NOT a clear day over Arizona? The Canyon is truly magnificent. And, of course, I--a Florida State alumnus--also thought you were speaking of FSU's bowl victory.<br /><br />Princeton's Center for Barth Studies is great. Hope you enjoy yourself--despite being in [shudder!] New Jersey! :-)Michael Westmoreland-White, Ph.D.https://www.blogger.com/profile/06343135380354344847noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14261952.post-846769055184509392007-01-09T01:04:00.000-05:002007-01-09T01:04:00.000-05:00oh...I thought it about FSU's thrashing of The Ohi...oh...I thought it about FSU's thrashing of The Ohio State University in today's Arizona-based Fiesta Bowl.::aaron g::https://www.blogger.com/profile/03849988327077565616noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14261952.post-49215755695408431252007-01-09T00:15:00.000-05:002007-01-09T00:15:00.000-05:00Me thinks that thou perhaps hast found,
as from a...Me thinks that thou perhaps hast found, <br />as from a height Hiltonic, <br />the place Prometheus was bound,<br />and moved by Muse you now expound <br />in verse that's quite Miltonic.<br /><br />Enjoy, Ben.<br />And kindest regards to e-friends at Princeton.<br /><br />KimAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14261952.post-18464878898967872302007-01-08T22:29:00.000-05:002007-01-08T22:29:00.000-05:00In case you missed it, here is the moral of this p...In case you missed it, here is the moral of this poem: 36 hours of travelling without sleep can turn even the best of us into raving romantic pantheists....Ben Myershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03800127501735910966noreply@blogger.com