Hi all, Some in my lab just sent this to me as a response to the snow falling here in SW Ohio....
Stopping by woods on a snowy evening by Robert Frost Whose woods these are I think I know. His house is in the village though; He will not see me stopping here To watch his woods fill up with snow. My little horse must think it queer To stop without a farmhouse near Between the woods and frozen lake The darkest evening of the year. He gives his harness bells a shake To ask if there is some mistake. The only other sound’s the sweep Of easy wind and downy flake. The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleep, And miles to go before I sleep. On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 9:29 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > Bob, > > Up in your part of the world, a literature professor definitely has to > understand Emily Dickinson! Thank you for asking. Steve is the ENTS Poetic > Interpretation and Vegetative Identification expert. (ENTSPIVI). > > And I hope he was impressed with the erudite posts we exchange here... > > Jenny > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Bob <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] <[email protected]> > Sent: Fri, Dec 18, 2009 10:59 pm > Subject: Re: [ENTS] Re: good winter tree poem > > Jenny, > > Tonight Monica and I had dinner with > a literature professor friend of ours from Trinity College. I asked him > about the Emily Dickinson poem. His interpretation > was similar to Steve's. > > Bob > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Dec 18, 2009, at 2:25 PM, [email protected] wrote: > > James, ENTS, > > I have seen the Lord of the Rings movies, but I actually don't know the > Tolkein Treebeard poems and stories well. I love the poem. > > It is very satisfying to start to understand more specifically the tree > imagery in poetry. It makes it a lot more meaningful. > > Maybe someone can help me with the following poem by Emily Dickinson. Why > does the 'junior foliage' of a younger tree disrespect the crow? Why does > the crow prefer the 'antiquated tree'? I don't completely understand this > poem, but I love the words. > > "An antiquated tree > Is cherished of the Crow > Because that Junior Foliage is disrespectful now > To venerable Birds > Whose Corporation Coat > Would decorate Oblivion's > Remotest Consulate." > > Jenny > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: James Parton <[email protected]> > To: ENTSTrees <[email protected]> > Sent: Fri, Dec 18, 2009 12:30 pm > Subject: [ENTS] Re: good winter tree poem > > Jenny, > > I love tree poems! > > If you have ever watched the Lord of the Rings movies, you probably > have heard the poems and stories of Treebeard, the ent. One of them he > tells the hobbits while he is carrying them through the forest always > brings tears to my eyes when I hear it. In the book of Fellowship of > the Ring, Tom Bombadil is always singing something interesting and is > one of my favorite LOTR characters, sadly he is totally omitted in the > movie. > > ENTS, send more " treeish " poems! > > "When spring unfolds the beechen leaf, and sap is in the bough; > When light is on the wildwood stream, and wind is on the brow; > When stride is long and breath is deep, and keen the mountain air; > Come back to me! Come back to me, and say my land is fair!" > > The Ent and the Entwife by J.R.R. Tolkien. > > > James Parton > > On Dec 18, 8:18 am, JennyNYC <[email protected]> wrote: > > Winter Trees, by William Carlos Williams > > > > All the complicated details > > of the attiring and > > the disattiring are completed! > > A liquid moon > > moves gently among > > the long branches. > > Thus having prepared their buds > > against a sure winter > > the wise trees > > stand sleeping in the cold. > > -- > Eastern Native Tree Society > <http://www.nativetreesociety.org/>http://www.nativetreesociety.org > Send email to <[email protected]>[email protected] > Visit this group at > <http://groups.google.com/group/entstrees?hl=en>http://groups.google.com/group/entstrees?hl=en > To unsubscribe send email to > <[email protected]>[email protected] > > -- > Eastern Native Tree Society <http://www.nativetreesociety.org/> > http://www.nativetreesociety.org > Send email to [email protected] > Visit this group at <http://groups.google.com/group/entstrees?hl=en> > http://groups.google.com/group/entstrees?hl=en > To unsubscribe send email to <[email protected]> > [email protected] > > -- > Eastern Native Tree Society http://www.nativetreesociety.org > Send email to [email protected] > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/entstrees?hl=en > To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] > > -- > Eastern Native Tree Society http://www.nativetreesociety.org > Send email to [email protected] > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/entstrees?hl=en > To unsubscribe send email to > [email protected]<entstrees%[email protected]> > -- Ryan McEwan The University of Dayton http://academic.udayton.edu/RyanMcEwan -- Eastern Native Tree Society http://www.nativetreesociety.org Send email to [email protected] Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/entstrees?hl=en To unsubscribe send email to [email protected]
