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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Neocon who wrote (86608)	8/27/2000 3:54:59 PM
From: jbe	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

No one said anything about "worn themes"? Then who wrote this, Neo? I think this is the sort of thing that chooseanother was referring to. The theme of suffering, even dying, for love dates back at least to "Tristan and Isolde", which pre- dates the ballad by several centuries, and is strewn throughout Elizabethan poetry. As for treatment, well, all I can say is that the godawful hymn you posted wins the Triteness Prize hands down.

To: Neocon who wrote (86608)	8/27/2000 4:07:15 PM
From: Mac Con Ulaidh	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

post me an original idea. Tristan and whatsiwho was not original at the time of the writing. We both know that, surely. Find me the very first time any one wrote the idea, but more importantly, the first time anyone thought it or expressed it. It's not orginality, in the sense of being the first to thing of something, but in how we touch others in our expression of something.... all, or many, or some, of us feel about a subject. It goes on and on. And "The Boxer" is but a newer expression of "Stewball". So what? They both reached people. Some feelings, some themes, are timeless. It's the power of the poet to make it new to a new generation. To reach people. People feel the same things now, go through the same things now, as they did how ever many thousands of years ago.