Questioning
Conversation Galante (T. S. Eliot)
Posted 04-21-2009 at 10:16 AM by itSFMe
Some people just do not get poetry 
I OBSERVE: “Our sentimental friend the moon!
Or possibly (fantastic, I confess)
It may be Prester John’s balloon
Or an old battered lantern hung aloft
To light poor travellers to their distress.”
She then: “How you digress!”
And I then: “Someone frames upon the keys
That exquisite nocturne, with which we explain
The night and moonshine; music which we seize
To body forth our own vacuity.”
She then: “Does this refer to me?”
“Oh no, it is I who am inane.”
“You, madam, are the eternal humorist,
The eternal enemy of the absolute,
Giving our vagrant moods the slightest twist!
With your air indifferent and imperious
At a stroke our mad poetics to confute—”
And—“Are we then so serious?”
Let me be the first to say that I do not understand most poems
Often I think they are quite pretentious. But then again, why so serious?
I OBSERVE: “Our sentimental friend the moon!
Or possibly (fantastic, I confess)
It may be Prester John’s balloon
Or an old battered lantern hung aloft
To light poor travellers to their distress.”
She then: “How you digress!”
And I then: “Someone frames upon the keys
That exquisite nocturne, with which we explain
The night and moonshine; music which we seize
To body forth our own vacuity.”
She then: “Does this refer to me?”
“Oh no, it is I who am inane.”
“You, madam, are the eternal humorist,
The eternal enemy of the absolute,
Giving our vagrant moods the slightest twist!
With your air indifferent and imperious
At a stroke our mad poetics to confute—”
And—“Are we then so serious?”
Let me be the first to say that I do not understand most poems
Often I think they are quite pretentious. But then again, why so serious? 
Total Comments 2
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Poetry is however you perceive it, Meaningless to some but to others the most wonderous feelings ever put into words.
I love reading your Blog Sf, keep them coming.Posted 04-21-2009 at 05:50 PM by rosalie
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I'm the second then to say I don't understand all of these.
But always worth reading nonetheless!Posted 04-22-2009 at 06:22 PM by Aventura
