{"id":188,"date":"2018-10-11T13:02:00","date_gmt":"2018-10-11T13:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/2018\/10\/11\/a-poem-for-thursday-5\/"},"modified":"2020-10-26T23:04:35","modified_gmt":"2020-10-26T23:04:35","slug":"a-poem-for-thursday-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/2018\/10\/11\/a-poem-for-thursday-5\/","title":{"rendered":"A Poem for a Thursday"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I don’t read much poetry and I am not sure why. It might be pure laziness since poetry is frequently not as straight-forward as a novel and I like my words clear and incisive. However, I also like my words beautiful and lyrical and\u00a0poems fit the bill there.\u00a0 In a bid to read more poetry I am going to start posting a poem I like every Thursday. That is all it is going to be–a poem I like that caught my eye or my ear. I am not going to tear it apart and analyze it to death though I might occasionally have some random thoughts about it. If you have random thoughts as well then I would love to hear them in the comments. I also would love poetry recommendations. Do you have a favorite poem? A favorite poet? Tell me what I have been missing.<\/p>\n

I have always thought of Robert Frost as a New England poet but I was fascinated to find out that, while he lived for many years in Massachusetts, his poetry was first published while he was living in England. Frost won the Pulitzer\u00a0Prize four times, was made the poet laureate of Vermont in 1961, and was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature an amazing 31 times. I doubt there is a high school student in the U.S. who has not read and analyzed his “The Road Not Taken”.\u00a0<\/i>\u00a0I wasn’t familiar (what a surprise) with this poem but I stumbled across it while looking for quotes about autumn.<\/p>\n

A tree’s leaves may be ever so good,<\/i>
\nSo may its bar, so may its wood;<\/i>
\nBut unless\u00a0you put the right thing to its root<\/i>
\nIt never will show much flower or fruit.<\/i>
\n
\n<\/i> But I may be one who does not care<\/i>
\nEver to have tree bloom or bear.<\/i>
\nLeaves for smooth and bark for rough,<\/i>
\nLeaves and bark may be tree enough.<\/i>
\n
\n<\/i> Some giant trees have bloom so small<\/i>
\nThey might as well have none at all.<\/i>
\nLate in life I have\u00a0come on fern.<\/i>
\nNow lichens are due to have their turn.<\/i>
\n
\n<\/i> I bade men tell me which in brief,<\/i>
\nWhich is fairer, flower or leaf.<\/i>
\nThey did not have the wit to say,<\/i>
\nLeaves by night and flowers by day.<\/i>
\n
\n<\/i> Leaves and bar, leaves and bark,<\/i>
\nTo lean against and hear in the dark.<\/i>
\nPetals I may have once pursued.<\/i>
\nLeaves are all my darker mood.<\/i>
\n
\n<\/i> Leaves Compared With Flowers
\nRobert Frost<\/p>\n

I wrote this whole post and then realized that, as with many things, this is not an original thought. The blog Girl With Her Head in a Book <\/i>also posts a weekly poem. Go, read<\/a>! Have a double–<\/i>dose of weekly poetry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I don’t read much poetry and I am not sure why. It might be pure laziness since poetry is frequently not as straight-forward as a novel and I like my words clear and incisive. However, I also like my words beautiful and lyrical and\u00a0poems fit the bill there.\u00a0 In a bid to read more poetry I am going to start posting a poem I like every Thursday. That is all it is going to be–a poem I like that caught my eye or my ear. I am not going to tear it apart and analyze it to death though I might occasionally have some random thoughts about it. If you have random thoughts as well then I would love to hear them in the comments. I also would love poetry recommendations. Do you have a favorite poem? A favorite poet? Tell me what I have been missing. I have always thought of Robert Frost as a New England poet but I was fascinated to find out that, while he lived for many years in Massachusetts, his poetry was first published while he was living in England. Frost won the Pulitzer\u00a0Prize four times, was made the poet laureate of Vermont in 1961, and was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature an amazing 31 times. I doubt there is a high school student in the U.S. who has not read and analyzed his “The Road Not Taken”.\u00a0\u00a0I wasn’t familiar (what a surprise) with this poem but I stumbled across it while looking for quotes about autumn. A tree’s leaves may be ever so good, So may its bar, so may its wood; But unless\u00a0you put the right thing to its root It never will show much flower or fruit. But I may be one who does not care Ever to have tree bloom or bear. Leaves for smooth and bark for rough, Leaves and bark may be tree enough. Some giant trees have bloom so small They might as well have none at all. Late in life I have\u00a0come on fern. Now lichens are due to have their turn. I bade men tell me which in brief, Which is fairer, flower or leaf. They did not have the wit to say, Leaves by night and flowers by day. Leaves and bar, leaves and bark, To lean against and hear in the dark. Petals I may have once pursued. Leaves are all my darker mood. Leaves Compared With Flowers Robert Frost I wrote this whole post and then realized that, as with many things, this is not an original thought. The blog Girl With Her Head in a Book also posts a weekly poem. Go, read! Have a double–dose of weekly poetry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1458,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poem-for-a-thursday"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2651,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188\/revisions\/2651"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}