I’ve been traveling the past few days on a Presidents’ Day holiday trip. No, I didn’t know there was such a thing, either! I will be home in the morning, and I will try to post something a bit more ambitious then.
‘Now that I have your attention’
By Jimmy Johnson
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97 responses to “‘Now that I have your attention’”
Almost 12 hours now without anyone posting anything? We must all be busy today.
TruckerRon:
No.
Other reasons.
Are y’all remembering that calico is also a type of fabric? So the dog was made of gingham and the cat of calico.
I also grew up on that poem.
Debbe, how do you like these cats? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMFqMKJqDlk
Ms. Kirk, yes, I remember gingham and calico. I also grew up on that poem. My chief education on poetry was not at my public school—which I very much regret to write. America has never matched the education in the humanities that our forbears on other continents have accomplished routinely. Though my elementary teachers did try to teach a little poetry. But they had had scant training. That has not changed in teacher training.
Instead, my poetry education came primarily from one book: “The Golden Treasury of Poetry,” edited by Louis Untermeyer in 1959. I was given a copy by a dear aunt in 1963. That’s where I learned some poems by Eugene Field (though not “The Duel”) and the names of Alfred Noyes, Carl Sandburg, Emily Dickinson, Edward Lear, and others. A huge, wonderful book for a child!
Though it did not teach me about iambs, trochees, or poetic meter, so sad to say, which are dirt easy to learn. I never did have an education proper in that.
And now what I think is a $64,000 question: Where did Mr. James Johnson learn this literature? And, actually, I can’t say where I learned “The Duel,” for it’s not in Untermeyer’s book. But it gave me the education to read more widely.
Alas that U.S. newspapers stopped printing poetry as they used to!
Predictable too!
Good shot, Janis 🙂
If something is wrong, this will not be 59. Peace,
I know everyone is not watching the closing of the Olympics, so where the @@@@ is the population of the Village?
Here; checking in.
My wonderful broker’s son in law is on that gold curling team. She and her daughter are in Seoul. Peace,
Mark:
The times, they are a’changing.
Good Morning Villagers
..and a bright, sunny day to you Mark…..it wasn’t the Olympics I was watching, just Redditing.
later, gaters
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Mountain nyala. We had these / Bronx Zoo.
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Peace,
And today’s TIP BlogSpot is better than most.
http://www.gocomics.com/that-is-priceless/
Peace,
A landscape, huh? Twin peaks, maybe?
If I remember, GIs named part of the Korean landscape after Jane Russell.
Elaine: All men are prancing, leering billygoats.
Peace,
I was reading….. 🙂
Do you wonder how the Grand Tetons were named?? My French isn’t all that good, but this seems obvious.
Here’s a nooner for you 🙂
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I’d love to be a cat
=^..^=
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c x-p. That’s exactly how they were named. “All men … .” Peace,
Debbe, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMFqMKJqDlk
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