Thursday, October 22, 2009

Harryette Mullen : interesting take on 2 lines




Here's a very good analysis of a poem by one American poet Harryette Mullen.

She just won the Academy of American Poets Fellowship 2009. 

Take a look at how ROBIN TREMBLAY-MCGAW, at X POETICS, interprets these lines:

Night moon star sun down gown.
Night moan stir sin dawn gown.

12 comments:

  1. A pantun dua kerat?

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  2. Yes, MM, this is not uncommon. Even Wendy Cope does it:

    Two Cures for Love
    by Wendy Cope

    1.Don't see him. Don't phone or write a letter.
    2.The easy way: get to know him better.

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  3. Well, I could say rhymed couplet, like Wendy Cope's. This seems more like a pantun's natural image/sound | meaning structure.

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  4. A google search for Harryette Mullen brought me to this image, which is not Harryette Mullen but Evie Shockley. Just because both poets are African American does not make them interchangeable.

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