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   From: shawn_roske@sympatico.ca   
      
   Shez  wrote in   
   news:aw56xVAlP9ICFwDw@oldcity.f2s.com:   
      
   > In article <4223c4a3_1@127.0.0.1>, Pertial   
   >  writes   
   >>   
   >>> My tastes in poetry range from the Sublime Shake spears sonnets, to   
   >>> the outrageous Spike Milligans funny poems and verses. And a whole   
   >>> range in between.   
   >>   
   >>Oh my, well you do have quite a range!   
   >>But wasn't that "Britney Spears", and not Shake Spears?   
   >>Shake was before your time, I think.   
   >   
   > Brittany Spears... isn't she some pop singer ?   
   > I am afraid the singers I like would have died before you were born.   
   > Besides I am a classical and opera fan not a pop music fan. Though   
   > some modern songs have lyrics that are exceptional or music that   
   > touches the soul its not often such songs or music comes along.   
   >   
   >   
   > Shakespeare is an old favourite of mine, though my real interest lies   
   > with Anglo Saxon England and even before that with the Celts... have   
   > you heard the sagas by any chance. Beowulf perhaps   
   >   
   > Gawrit seo raedan craeft sode I hwinsian galdorword foruwian ellorgast   
   > raest gehealden seo onendeleasdaeg   
   >   
   > Some of the epic poems are incredible and well worth reading either in   
   > the original or translated.   
   > Will Shakespeare is only a begining their was much before him, and   
   > their will be much after.. Epic fantasy's  and myths come in all   
   > shapes and sizes.   
   >  Have you read Mort'e de Arthure.... or Historia Regum Britannia by   
   > Geoffrey of Monmouth The Canterbury tales.. Very jolly and very down   
   > to earth. How about the Welsh cycle. The Mabinogiaon   
   > The lay of Taliesin the bard.   
   > If your talking poetry you need to go back a few thousand years and   
   > pick up over the centuries the myths, lays, and sagas from great bards   
   > and wordsmiths. It tends to make today's offerings look pale and wan   
   > in comparison.. But then the people writing or singing or telling   
   > those tales truly lived them...   
      
   one of the ideas popular in anthropology is to look at the old stories as   
   encoded wisdom.  there is a current of thought that looks at these things   
   as 'alternate ways of knowing'.  i don't really like this formulation,   
   'various ways of knowing' might be better.  evaluation comes in when   
   looking for practical uses mythology.   
      
   i think it was joseph campbel who first introduced me to the idea of   
   myths and folkstories as maps or models of how to live in the world.   
   this is also connected with the idea that there is need for new myths   
   that build global ways of living.  perhaps we can find examples in the   
   world today of competing myths offering such ways of living in the world   
   as it is now.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)