Jenny, One can hardly have a post on tree poetry without including what might be the most famous tree poem of all.
TREES by: Joyce Kilmer (1886-1918) I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree. A tree whose hungry mouth is prest Against the earth's sweet flowing breast; A tree that looks at God all day, And lifts her leafy arms to pray; A tree that may in Summer wear A nest of robins in her hair; Upon whose bosom snow has lain; Who intimately lives with rain. Poems are made by fools like me, But only God can make a tree. JP This poem also earned him a great tract of old growth forest which bears his name. The Joyce Kilmer Memorial Forest. On Dec 19, 2:57 pm, [email protected] wrote: > Ryan, > > That's one of the greatest poems about winter and trees and thoughts of life. > Certainly one of my favorites. Thanks for posting it. > > I think I've posted this one before but, I like it so much I'll post it again; > Also Robert Frost > > Dust of Snow > > The way a crow > Shook down on me > The dust of snow > From a Hemlock tree > > Has given my heart > A change of mood > And saved some part > Of a day I had rued. > > Jenny > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Ryan McEwan <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Sat, Dec 19, 2009 11:47 am > Subject: Re: [ENTS] Re: good winter tree poem > > 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 Societyhttp://www.nativetreesociety.org > Send email to [email protected] > Visit this group athttp://groups.google.com/group/entstrees?hl=en > To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] > > -- > Eastern Native Tree Societyhttp://www.nativetreesociety.org > Send email to [email protected] > Visit this group athttp://groups.google.com/group/entstrees?hl=en > To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] > > -- > Eastern Native Tree Societyhttp://www.nativetreesociety.org > Send email to [email protected] > Visit this group athttp://groups.google.com/group/entstrees?hl=en > To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] > > -- > Eastern Native Tree Societyhttp://www.nativetreesociety.org > Send email to [email protected] > Visit this group athttp://groups.google.com/group/entstrees?hl=en > To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] > > -- > Ryan McEwan > The University of Daytonhttp://academic.udayton.edu/RyanMcEwan > > -- > Eastern Native Tree Societyhttp://www.nativetreesociety.org > Send email to [email protected] > Visit this group athttp://groups.google.com/group/entstrees?hl=en > To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] Hide > quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - -- 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]
