What sounds good to you?
Would anyone mind describing some characteristics, or even examples of great sounding lines? Ignoring the meaning of the words, what sonically interests you? For example, I've noticed that I like...
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Where to start? To name just a few: As kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies draw flame; As tumbled over rim in roundy wells Stones ring; like each tucked string tells, each hung bell's Bow swung find...
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Really great, thanks everyone. So no one's going to take a stab at coming up with some 'scientific theories' or 'rules of thumb' that might help explain why all of these various examples sounds so...
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I've always been drawn to the sounds in Wilfred Owen's "Futility". Move him into the sun - Gently its touch awoke him once, At home, whispering of fields unsown. Always it woke him, even in France,...
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"When to the sessions of sweet silent thought" I kind of like that. How bout "To be or not to be, that is the question" Stuff that sticks in your mind is always the best, unless of course, it sucks.
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from Sonnet 23 O, learn to read what silent love hath writ: To hear with eyes belongs to love's fine wit.
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And now I Foam to wheat, a glitter of seas. The child's cry Melts in the wall. And I Am the arrow, The dew that flies, Suicidal, at one with the drive Into the red Eye, the cauldron of morning. Sylvia...
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So no one's going to take a stab at coming up with some 'scientific theories' or 'rules of thumb' that might help explain why all of these various examples sounds so good? Nay lad, few know the...
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Merlin, Welcome to SC (I assume you're new?). I am going to respond that what you've written reminds me of everything that is wrong with pointillism. The theory. The science. The appeal of lines in...
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Rick, Thank you for the welcome, but I date back to 2001 on SC. Tis true, you don't see me now but I do look in on a somewhat regular basis. We disagree. It is the mark of the master who can make the...
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Merlin wrote: "Discover that L is perhaps the prettiest of them all. Lovely how its liquid form flows along." Here is a poem I wrote for children nearly 40 years ago: WORDS WITH L'S My favorite words...
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And now I wander in the woods When summer gluts the golden bees, Or in autumnal solitudes Arise the leopard-coloured trees; Or when along the wintry strands The cormorants shiver on their rocks; I...
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One rational voice is dumb. Over his grave the household of Impulse mourns one dearly loved: sad is Eros, builder of cities, and weeping anarchic Aphrodite. Man, when Auden's good, he is good.
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I used to have this LP record: The Poems of William Butler Yeats (Spoken Arts 753 1959). Read by the author, Siobhan McKenna, and Michael MacLiammoir. I don't know if you can still get it. Michael...
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Richard Lederer (author of Anguished English and similar books) had interesting things to say on the subject of sound-beauty apart from sense. In short, he doesn't think much of the idea. I wish I...
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This is something I feel very strongly about. If writing a beautiful line means making sure you load up on "l"s or some vowel-consonant combinations on a list, than I quit. The science and math...
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Hi Rick, So in your opinion, would it be equally as difficult to explain why something sounds bad? (Assuming we're not talking about breaking metrical rules.) I tend to believe that although...
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What's sonically "good" or "bad" anyway? In one poem you might want mellifluous lines with lots of l's and n's and w's - "Upon the brimming water among the stones Are nine-and-fifty Swans". In another...
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