Blogging meme
Dec. 29th, 2013 09:33 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
issenlloI've missed three days... Oops? At least there were no topics on those days.
Today, fromtuulentupa: what's behind your journal title, "a bird made from a shell"?
There's a very straightforward answer: it's from a poem called "Joy" by Kathleen Peirce. (I misspelt that as "Pierce" for the longest time.) Here's a link to the poem, which I hope the f-list likes too.
It was posted, if I remember right, on the breath-poetry community on LJ. Just at the point when I was wondering whether to rename my DW journal the same as the LJ one, or not, and if not then what. I can't even remember the original name I gave my DW journal.
Anyway, if I had a better appreciation/understanding of poetry, I'd talk all about my favourite poems in this particular entry. But I don't really get poetry very well. Sometimes I feel a connection, and sometimes not, no matter how much other people enjoy it. For example, I've always loved Henry Reed's "Naming of Parts", even though it's a war poem and I do not enjoy war poems; and have hugely pft feelings towards "The Wasteland". It takes a while for poetry to sink in, for me.
I like "Joy" more for the images it conjured up. It felt like a fantasy story I wanted to write, so I thought that was appropriate for a fandom-focused/supposed-to-be writing blog. Maybe one day.
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tuulentupa: what's behind your journal title, "a bird made from a shell"? There's a very straightforward answer: it's from a poem called "Joy" by Kathleen Peirce. (I misspelt that as "Pierce" for the longest time.) Here's a link to the poem, which I hope the f-list likes too.
It was posted, if I remember right, on the breath-poetry community on LJ. Just at the point when I was wondering whether to rename my DW journal the same as the LJ one, or not, and if not then what. I can't even remember the original name I gave my DW journal.
Anyway, if I had a better appreciation/understanding of poetry, I'd talk all about my favourite poems in this particular entry. But I don't really get poetry very well. Sometimes I feel a connection, and sometimes not, no matter how much other people enjoy it. For example, I've always loved Henry Reed's "Naming of Parts", even though it's a war poem and I do not enjoy war poems; and have hugely pft feelings towards "The Wasteland". It takes a while for poetry to sink in, for me.
I like "Joy" more for the images it conjured up. It felt like a fantasy story I wanted to write, so I thought that was appropriate for a fandom-focused/supposed-to-be writing blog. Maybe one day.
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Date: 2013-12-29 06:36 pm (UTC)I almost named my journal from a poem too, years ago on LJ: baking cathedrals. That's from Edith Södergran's poem Hope. Actually, coming to think of it, I just might go and make that my subtitle now... hmm.
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Date: 2013-12-30 02:43 pm (UTC)That's an intriguing style she has: short verses, declarative phrases. Just to clarify, she does write in English - I mean, those are not translated poems, right?
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Date: 2013-12-30 04:46 pm (UTC)(I've posted a few of her poems on my journal, in both languages, in the case you want to take a look: http://tuulentupa.dreamwidth.org/tag/poetry:+edith+s%C3%B6dergran Though I guess seeing the Swedish original won't be of much use if one doesn't know Swedish... ^^;)