tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8881054030497725613.post4251767700274648987..comments2023-11-03T15:50:56.001+01:00Comments on POET IN RESIDENCE : CloudsGwil Whttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03305768121713053837noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8881054030497725613.post-10604699865746066942012-03-06T17:07:03.373+01:002012-03-06T17:07:03.373+01:00Yes. Brilliant idea Dominic!
I see it all now, t...Yes. Brilliant idea Dominic! <br /><br />I see it all now, the red nosed poet laureate WW as a clown with a bundle o' daffs in lapel. Dorothy baking the bread in Wordsworth Cottage. A border collie scratching for fleas. John Peel blowing his horn.Gwil Whttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03305768121713053837noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8881054030497725613.post-48733108469286188592012-03-06T08:07:56.429+01:002012-03-06T08:07:56.429+01:00I'm with you on this. Lonely as a cloud is a b...I'm with you on this. Lonely as a cloud is a bit lame. Lonely as a clown fits and would work better.Dominic Rivronhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02618013365521035400noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8881054030497725613.post-58708034424989904652012-02-27T22:25:17.594+01:002012-02-27T22:25:17.594+01:00OK, maybe I was a bit too hard on the Lakeland bar...OK, maybe I was a bit too hard on the Lakeland bard - but I feel he was, being lazy, this poem. I have lately wandered along the shore of Ullswater and tried to imagined that he saw the lonely wandering cloud float o'er the great Helvellyn massif . . .Gwil Whttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03305768121713053837noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8881054030497725613.post-62146770377552986022012-02-27T20:47:23.208+01:002012-02-27T20:47:23.208+01:00That has shattered my concept of what I thought wa...That has shattered my concept of what I thought was a super simile - I was imagining this lovely little cloud floating on high o'er vales and hills. I do agree though in the main about 'lazy' similes and metaphors - a good one (I think Donne had some wonderful ones) stays with one forever.<br />Still don't believe the cow story though - I think it is too Pythonesque.The Weaver of Grasshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13947971556343746883noreply@blogger.com