<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=460198" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Portraits after death; rhyme after time</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">and a poet I was reading yesterday<br>said, have you noticed<br>that portraits of people change<br>after they die? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">and I’ve noticed that portraits<br>of Princess Diana<br>now look to me as if <br>she’s a sad schemer</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I don’t like this at all.<br>I feel dirty, as if <br>I’d been manipulated<br>when all I want to do<br>is, to see the goodness and the beauty in her</div><div style="margin:10px 0">It’s the same with rhyme: <br>when I see rhyme<br>(hearing it doesn’t worry me so much, <br>as if the time of reading it<br>heals it in some way) -</div><div style="margin:10px 0">it seems like sad scheming<br>as when Robert Frost<br>has to take the road pre-planned<br>by language and the rhyming dictionary<br>and very obviously rhymes<br>future with suture</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I don’t like this at all, either: <br>It never used to worry me; now<br>I start to look cynically<br>at every poem that rhymes<br>in the convention of its times<br>(that rhyme was not planned<br>deliberately..) –<br>look cynically, to see<br>which was the chosen word, <br>the direction of the poet’s thought; <br>and which the ‘fill-in’, like<br>some silly puzzle; even if<br>it stimulates the poet’s imagination<br>perhaps</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I don’t like either of these phenomena<br>in actuality, or worse, in myself; <br>both these dirty me to myself.<br>This looks like being hard work<br>for the insulted mind<br>insulted, like some robot, by itself.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Diana, Robert, I am deeply, deeply regretful.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Michael+Shepherd">Michael Shepherd</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=460198" data-title="Portraits after death; rhyme after time de Michael Shepherd" data-description="and a poet I was reading yesterday said, have you noticed that portraits of people change after they die? and I’ve noticed that portraits of Princess Diana now look to me as if she’s a sad schemer I don’t like this at all. I feel dirty, ..."></div> </div> </div>

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