Another meme modification...

[conuly]

There's one going around now that has people guessing songs by lyrics you post in your journal. Unfortunately, I tend to listen to "classical" music (actually, most of it is Baroque....) and don't often have words to post.

So I decided to go with somewhat snobby option two and just post lines from poems I like and have memorized. One point for guessing the poet, one for guessing the title, three for guessing both. Winner gets a whole lot of points.

1. Tyger, Tyger, burning bright!

2. The little horse must think it queer
To stop without a farmhouse near

3. Prophet, said I, thing of evil! Prophet still if bird or devil!

4. Cannon to the right of them! Cannon to the left of them!

5. The vorpal blade went snicker-snack!

6. The lark, still bravely singing flies, scarce heard amidst the guns below

Be warned, my punctuation is erratic.

7. Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows

8. He thinks too much, such men are dangerous

9. I have thee not, and yet I see thee still.
Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible
To feeling as to sight?

10. Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow, creeps in this petty pace!

Comments

[drewaline.livejournal.com]

3: The Raven, Edgar Allen Poe. (At least.. I think)

[conuly]

Yup. God I love that poem.

[eofs.livejournal.com]

Ack, yes! *Beats head on desk*

[eofs.livejournal.com]

1. Tyger, Tyger, burning bright!

Tyger, Tyger by William Blake (from Songs of Innocence and Experience if I recall correctly.)

4. Cannon to the right of them! Cannon to the left of them! *Sings* Stuck in the middle with you. Ahem.

The Charge of the Light Brigade by Alfred Lord Tennyson.

5. The vorpal blade went snicker-snack!

Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll?

6. The lark, still bravely singing flies, scarce heard amidst the guns below

I recognise that, which makes me suspect it's one of the fifty million war poems I read last year. But I can't think what, or even who.

You a fan of Romantic poetry by any chance?

[conuly]

No particular "type" of poetry. Just stuff I can easily remember. Which means most of it is humorous, such as:

The babe, with a cry brief and dismal
Fell into the water baptismal
Ere we'd gathered its plight
It had sunk out of sight
For the depth of the font was abysmal.

And so far, you're right on all of 'em.

[malantha.livejournal.com]

1. no clue :)
2. robert frost's "stopping by woods on a snowy evening" (or something like that. i had to memorize the thing in school)
3. edgar a. poe's "the raven"
4. sounds like.. alfred lord tennyson.. but i really have no idea. sadly enough, the only reason i think that is because of space ghost ("cornbeef to the right of me, cornbeef to the left of me")
5. i'd guess lewis carroll
6. no clue

if you havent already, you should screen posts so people cant see other people's comments!

[conuly]

Nah, I plan to just add poems once people get that last one.

Here's a hint. It has to do with the first world war.

[eofs.livejournal.com]

This is embarrasing, I'm horrible at the Shakespeare! I recognise each of them, but identifying them...

8. He thinks too much, such men are dangerous

I'm about 80% sure I've either seen or studied this. I can picture Ken Branagh saying this as Iago in Othello (about Cassius.) But I can also see it coming from one of the histories... Grr.

9. I have thee not, and yet I see thee still.
Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible
To feeling as to sight?

Macbeth in Macbeth

10. Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow, creeps in this petty pace!

Is this Hamlet? In Hamlet>.

Darn you, posting quotations I don't know :0P

[conuly]

1. Cassius isn't in Othello, is he?

3. No, not Hamlet.

[marveen.livejournal.com]

You ain't kiddin' about your punctuation being erratic.

That last one had ought to be "Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow/Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,/ Until the last syllable of recorded time."

That's Macbeth again, isn't it?

[conuly]

Yes, it is. And I know about my punctuation. I remember how to say them, but not how to write them. It's hard work getting me to punctuate correctly when it ISN'T something already written down, so this is well nigh impossible.

[xxrosencrantzxx.livejournal.com]

1. Tyger, Tyger by Blake.

2. Woods Snowy Evening Robert Frost.

3. Raven Poe.

4. Charge of the Light Brigade Tennyson.

5. Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll.

6. Dunno.

7. Familiar but it eludes me.

8. Cassius, Julius Caesar?

9. ?

10. ?

[grammaravenger.livejournal.com]

I knew:

3. The Raven. (I memorized it earlier this year.)
5. The Jabberwocky
8. Julius Caesar!

[drewaline.livejournal.com]

3: The Raven, Edgar Allen Poe. (At least.. I think)

[conuly]

Yup. God I love that poem.

[eofs.livejournal.com]

Ack, yes! *Beats head on desk*

[eofs.livejournal.com]

1. Tyger, Tyger, burning bright!

Tyger, Tyger by William Blake (from Songs of Innocence and Experience if I recall correctly.)

4. Cannon to the right of them! Cannon to the left of them! *Sings* Stuck in the middle with you. Ahem.

The Charge of the Light Brigade by Alfred Lord Tennyson.

5. The vorpal blade went snicker-snack!

Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll?

6. The lark, still bravely singing flies, scarce heard amidst the guns below

I recognise that, which makes me suspect it's one of the fifty million war poems I read last year. But I can't think what, or even who.

You a fan of Romantic poetry by any chance?

[conuly]

No particular "type" of poetry. Just stuff I can easily remember. Which means most of it is humorous, such as:

The babe, with a cry brief and dismal
Fell into the water baptismal
Ere we'd gathered its plight
It had sunk out of sight
For the depth of the font was abysmal.

And so far, you're right on all of 'em.

[malantha.livejournal.com]

1. no clue :)
2. robert frost's "stopping by woods on a snowy evening" (or something like that. i had to memorize the thing in school)
3. edgar a. poe's "the raven"
4. sounds like.. alfred lord tennyson.. but i really have no idea. sadly enough, the only reason i think that is because of space ghost ("cornbeef to the right of me, cornbeef to the left of me")
5. i'd guess lewis carroll
6. no clue

if you havent already, you should screen posts so people cant see other people's comments!

[conuly]

Nah, I plan to just add poems once people get that last one.

Here's a hint. It has to do with the first world war.

[eofs.livejournal.com]

This is embarrasing, I'm horrible at the Shakespeare! I recognise each of them, but identifying them...

8. He thinks too much, such men are dangerous

I'm about 80% sure I've either seen or studied this. I can picture Ken Branagh saying this as Iago in Othello (about Cassius.) But I can also see it coming from one of the histories... Grr.

9. I have thee not, and yet I see thee still.
Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible
To feeling as to sight?

Macbeth in Macbeth

10. Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow, creeps in this petty pace!

Is this Hamlet? In Hamlet>.

Darn you, posting quotations I don't know :0P

[conuly]

1. Cassius isn't in Othello, is he?

3. No, not Hamlet.

[marveen.livejournal.com]

You ain't kiddin' about your punctuation being erratic.

That last one had ought to be "Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow/Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,/ Until the last syllable of recorded time."

That's Macbeth again, isn't it?

[conuly]

Yes, it is. And I know about my punctuation. I remember how to say them, but not how to write them. It's hard work getting me to punctuate correctly when it ISN'T something already written down, so this is well nigh impossible.

[xxrosencrantzxx.livejournal.com]

1. Tyger, Tyger by Blake.

2. Woods Snowy Evening Robert Frost.

3. Raven Poe.

4. Charge of the Light Brigade Tennyson.

5. Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll.

6. Dunno.

7. Familiar but it eludes me.

8. Cassius, Julius Caesar?

9. ?

10. ?

[grammaravenger.livejournal.com]

I knew:

3. The Raven. (I memorized it earlier this year.)
5. The Jabberwocky
8. Julius Caesar!