<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=549006" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Consolation Cannot Be The Prize</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Sad and angry, consolation<br>cannot be the prize, <br>though neither zeal nor agitation<br>can help to amortize<br>the feelings of despair and grief, <br>or blow away the blues<br>when desperate with disbelief, <br>and sad from self-abuse.<br>Agitated with great zeal, <br>prizes in your grasp<br>are, when you’re sad and angry, real<br>as air that makes fish gasp.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">My friend Barbara Burbanks, shocked by my poem “Autobiography, ” wrote to me: “You keep writing poems about sad relationships and sexless lives, ” so I decided to write an upbeat poem for a change, but this is what emerged. The poem, revised on 11/30/09, was inspired by words spoken on the BBC regarding the poet Christopher Hill, who was giving a lecture about “Coriolanus” in the Purcell Room of the Royal Festival Hall: <br>The American critic Hugh Kenner once criticised Geoffrey Hill's poems by saying that language should not be agonised over like Christianity is. It is, I think, Hill's distinction that in volume after volume from the early 'For the Unfallen' to the recent 'The Triumph of Love', he has shown not only how that agonising might take place, but has proved its necessity in our modern world of atrocity and horror amid the failure of adequate response by the professional religious. 'What is the poem? ' asked the narrative voice at the end of 'The Triumph of Love.' What figures? And the response that voice supplies is, 'say a sad and angry consolation.' The voice goes on, 'that's beautiful, once more a sad and angry consolation.' </div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>11/28/00,11/30/09</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Gershon+Hepner">Gershon Hepner</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=549006" data-title="Consolation Cannot Be The Prize de Gershon Hepner" data-description="Sad and angry, consolation cannot be the prize, though neither zeal nor agitation can help to amortize the feelings of despair and grief, or blow away the blues when desperate with disbelief, and sad from self-abuse. Agitated with great zeal, ..."></div> </div> </div>

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