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This time of the year .. definitely Prague, Paris or certainly here in Dublin. With both Easter and the St. Patrick’s Day Festival coming within a week of each other, Dublin will be THE place to be :) .
Agreed.. the Fair City can be a bit pricey in places, but like any popular spot if you steer clear of the more obvious, central areas for restaurants and cafes etc you’ll find a great deal more reasonable outlets around town. Needless to say the pubs and clubs are the biz!!
Getting here has never been cheaper and the Euro has been very kind to Sterling over the years (though not as giving as in the past , it’s still a fine conversion rate for UK-landers at the mo).
Couple of links here..
Eminem
In Memory Of My Mother
I do not think of you lying in the wet clay
Of a Monaghan graveyard; I see
You walking down a lane among the poplars
On your way to the station, or happilyGoing to second Mass on a summer Sunday –
You meet me and you say:
‘Don’t forget to see about the cattle – ‘
Among your earthiest words the angels stray.And I think of you walking along a headland
Of green oats in June,
So full of repose, so rich with life –
And I see us meeting at the end of a townOn a fair day by accident, after
The bargains are all made and we can walk
Together through the shops and stalls and markets
Free in the oriental streets of thought.O you are not lying in the wet clay,
For it is a harvest evening now and we
Are piling up the ricks against the moonlight
And you smile up at us – eternally.@esmeralda wrote:
Hmm, I have not- deliberately have not – seen the film SYLVIA as my preconceptions deem it wrong on many counts. Firstly, since forced to write a thesis (many moons ago) on the impact of mental illness on the poetry of Sylvia Plath and Robert Lowell, and discovering that I went against the flow of female empathy for Plath whose tendency to self-pity and paranoia inflamed me, I would now rather spend time in a bell jar. Secondly and thirdly and a thousand times over – Daniel Craig as Ted Hughes – no- not ever – no! Paltrow as Plath, scarcely more palatable.
Call me prejudiced, call me unyielding, but I like what I like and I’m a Ted not a Sylvia girl.
Well..ya did ask!
Now beat me gizzards with an egg whisk! :wink:lol.. not at all! Admirable candour on your part! Although I am tempted to thump your jugs as it were regarding Mr Craig – tis well known in these parts that I’m a huge fan :) . Anyway, I thought the film an okay affair, watchable if a tad dreary.
With regard to enforced thesis torture, I myself went through a similar scenario to your fine self. Tennyson was my bane :? .. more mouthpiece than poet in my opinion (“Blow bugle blow..” etc ..), I had to scribble away and find something half decent to say about him (Shallot’s eponymous Lady and the Lotus Eaters aside not too much may I add :roll:).Oh well..
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Yep.. a fellow fan here Esmeralda. My personal fave collection of his – 1998’s Birthday Letters– is truly astonishing. Granted, the whole Plath connection is nowhere more palpable than in this work, but it is remarkable. Hughes passed away mere months after it’s publication, so the sense of emotional exoneration.. the secrets of a poetic confessional spanning three decades, added to the huge impact it’s release made on the literary world.
Stay tuned y’all for some posts from Birthday Letters :)
ps I’d be interested to hear your thoughts on the movie Sylvia with Gywneth Paltrow as the tragi-poetess and a certain Mr Craig as the Tedmeister?
A quasi review Here btw courtesy of Empire.Happy Birthday sexy ketts :wink:
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Have a great one lass!
xx