Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2009 07:22:32 -0500
From: poetry.guide@about.com
To: davidbchirot@HOTMAIL.COM
Subject: About Poetry: Mourners Turn to the Words of the Poets/9.11 Poems
Poetry Mourners Turn to the Words of the Poets The great poets capture human experience in memorable lines, so it is only natural that people turn to the words of the poets in times of crisis and change, to illustrate the summing-up of a life that has ended, to encapsulate the memories of the person who has died in the hearts of those who remain behind. The passing of Senator Ted Kennedy has been marked with poems by William Wordsworth and Robert Frost.... read more | | Our Forum's envoys to the September IBPC All three poets whose work has been selected to represent our Poetry Forum in this month's InterBoard Poetry Competition have been there before, and each of the three poems has a philosophical aspect. Our entries are: •Bernard Hamel's "High Noon" •"Unexpected Source," by Sherrylynne Mitchell •Zoltan Farkas' "Description of the 2-D World" | Poems in memory of 9.11.2001 It can be a great compliment to say that a poem is "timeless"--but many great poems are also inextricably bound to their time, rising out of history and carrying us back to a particular time with each reading, so that the present moment resonates with the past carried in the poem into now. Each year at this time we invoke this commemorative function of poems, for the anniversary of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attack on America, by republishing our "contemporaneous" 9.11 anthology | Sponsored Links | ![]() |  | | Poetry Ads Advertisement |  |
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