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Pastimes : Calling all SI Poets -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Cheeky Kid who wrote (1300)	2/13/1998 12:22:00 AM
From: Carol	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 2095

Hi Cheeky, Yes, in animal nature the males are bightly colored to attract the females. How did humans get so off track, the men are neutral shades, well at least some of them are, and the women have to paint themselves, wear short skirts, etc. to be noticed. Can you imagine what a human female in shades of gray would attract. Probably the flies. hehehe ROFL On the subject of Elizabeth Bishop; an interviewer once asked her if she ever written a poem easily, if any poems came to her as gifts. Bishop replied that she had written a villianelle, a French poetic form of nineteen lines divided into six stanzas, that way. "It was just like writing a letter," she said. In fact, seventeen drafts of this villanelle, titled, "One Art" exist. If it took seventeen drafts to write a poem that came so easily, imagine, how many drafts other Bishop poems went through. Another, Bishop poem, "The Moose" took twenty years to complete. Although, she had the beginning stanzas and the end, Bishop said she just couldn't get from one place to the other. I really like, "One Art" especially the (Write it) on the last line. Elizabeth Bishop's sponsor was Marianne Moore, another wonderful modern poet. She wrote mostly in syllabic verse and the visual patterning of her poem, "The Fish" is wonderful. If you can find it, just read and look at it. Its a real treat. 0:-} Carol