Thursday 3 March 2005

Still not really doing anything serious...

But trying to chill and recover. Choir tonight. It's Vaughan Williams A Sea Symphony, which is beautiful music but the lyrics are by whatshamacallit - Walt Whitman. Not my favourite poet, Walt. Brevity was not his strong point, nor was subtlety.

1 comment:

  1. Anonymous9:58 pm

    the reason whitman is so tedious is that, being american, he has to be very solemn to prove he's a "serious"poet. he labours the point because there is no strong literary tradition to allude to.

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