The Sodium Songs
Fri, 2001-12-14 22:54
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The Sodium Songs
Dear ABC
Thank you for choosing my work 'The Sodium Songs' as your poem of the day.
I was amused and charmed that you thought the themes of the poem were concerned with drug addiction, they are not at all but I can see how it can be interpeted that way.
The poem is actually about the fFrst World War. I went to Flanders a couple of years ago and was very affected by what i saw. I then read 'Birdsong' and became angry at the lack of dignity and time that is given to a war that occured less than a hundered years ago.
Thanks again.
Ralph
justyn_thyme
Yeah, I rather wondered what Sodium Songs had to do with drug addiction. A case can be made, of course. Effective imagery in any event.
Karl Wiggins
Thanks Mark. I figured you were the one, so I was hoping you wouldn't read this thread. No offence intended ..... and, knowing you like I do, I'm sure none taken.
Karl Wiggins
Ralph,
My piece "Memories of the Trail" (in my Poetry set) was picked as Story of the Day once. It was described as, "An idyllic and beautifully decriptive Native American fantasy." It's actually about a wagon train.
Congratulations all the same.
andrew pack
Roland Barthes said that once an author finished a work, each reader creates the work for themselves. (That is the absolute limit of my knowledge on post-modernism)
Alternatively, poems sometimes seem to be about different things to different readers...
steve
and wednesday night: sneinton was described with the dedication 'all is quiet in the village'. i thought it was an inner city thing, but there you go. congrats!
Andrea
Yep, I was reliably informed that I'd 'tackled the menopause' in 'Going Through the Change'.
Menopause, I can assure you, was the last thing on my mind (at least when I wrote it!).
Congrats on POD, Ralph, whatever it's about...
Andrea
(mindyew, I can see how the confusion arose. Must've been a subconcious Freudian slip)
Mark Yelland-Brown
I was the one who wrote that about Karl's `Story of the day`.
It's what it read like, I'm going to read it again, now!
Mark Yelland-Brown
Yep, Karl, there's certainly enough clues about `the trail` and `wagons`, sorry mate. Great poem though, enjoyed reading it again!