Subject: paralllel burns
From: WILL HOCHMAN (hochman@uscolo.edu)
Date: Fri Jun 27 1997 - 13:21:03 GMT
J, thanks for your good parallels between burns and salinger! I thought
the list might appreciate this quote from Robert Burns about composing his
poetry:
"These old scottish airs are so nobly sentimental that when one would
compose for them, to _south_ the tune, as our Scotch phrase is, over and
over, is the the readiest way to catch the inspiration, and raise the bard
into that glorius enthusiasm so strongly characteristic of our old Scotch
poetry."
btw, I just happen to have a tennant and close friend named Robert Burns
who is also a poet...he ends one of his poems with:
I wait for you like a black heron
Waits for the moonless night,
Like a ladder on fire waits for the rains.
I wait to meet you in a solitary place
Where the flowers look up from the earth
will
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