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Date Posted: 12:59:39 04/20/10 Tue
Author: 
Page
Subject: Don't know how interesting it is, but it's different! ;) >>>>
In reply to:
debikm
's message, "Now that tax season is over..." on 18:18:18 04/16/10 Fri
(Also, what's a "reslut?" LOL!!)
My two favorite poems are mentioned several times in Carey On, but none of the instances are very long or much in depth. (Luckily, they're both in the public domain, so I can use them. Woo hoo!) One of the poems, though, seems to weave a thread through the book despite its few appearances. That said, I've gathered up the instances in which the poems are mentioned in the book and present them to you in a nutshell (a homeworkshell?)
Excerpts from Carey On
©2010 by Juli Page Morgan
Posted for purposes of critique only and does not constitute publication.
From Chapter Seven, Storming the Castle
“I like Millais’ work.” Katie tilted her head and smiled. “But I like Rossetti better. Of course, that’s because of his poem, Sudden Light.”
“And why is that?”
Katie squirmed a bit under his intense gaze. “It’s my favorite poem. Has been since the first time I read it.”
“Hm.” Still regarding her closely, Jay smiled and held out his hand. “Come with me. I think it’s time for lunch.”
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From Chapter Eighteen, Mine Incommunicable Pain
Remembering Katie’s love for Sudden Light, Jay gave her a book of Rossetti’s poems along with a copy of one of his favorites, Grass of Parnassus by Andrew Lang. Katie fell in love with Lang’s epic poem. Each time she read it, her delight was aided by the memory of Jay’s soft voice quoting, “Last night, last night, in dreams we met; And how, to-day, shall I forget?” It made her laugh, too, when she recalled his quoting another line, his voice an insinuating growl: “Believe me, love, it is not good to hoard a mortal maidenhood.”
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From Chapter Twenty-Five, The Nature of the Beast
“You sound tired. Are you sleeping okay?”
“No,” he admitted. “But I think I can sleep now.” He smiled and quoted from the Andrew Lang poem they both loved. “Come to me in my dreams.” His mind supplied the following stanza: And then, one saith, I shall be well again.
Katie sighed. “I’ll be there.”
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From Chapter Forty-Six, Carey On
God, she wanted Jay. Not for sex, but just to have him near, to feel his warmth next to her, hear his even breaths, to see the shadow of his dark hair on the pillow, to smell the scent of him.
Her subconscious called up a stanza from Andrew Lang’s Grass of Parnassus, the part Jay used to quote to her:
Last night, last night, in dreams we met,
And how, today, shall I forget?
Katie whispered the remainder of the stanza into the darkness:
“Or how, remembering, restrain
Mine incommunicable pain?”
With a muffled sob she sat up and flung the covers back. Not stopping to think further, she got out of bed and hurried into the living room where she took two sets of keys and a flashlight from a drawer. Minutes later she let herself into Jay’s house.
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It is interesting! -- Debi, 06:09:49 04/21/10 Wed
The poetry is a good reflection of how Katie and Jay feel about one another. I like when you can weave a little classic literature into a contemporary story.
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Thank you! >>> -- Page, 20:53:40 05/06/10 Thu
>I like when you can weave a
>little classic literature into a contemporary story.
Me, too! And I love finding those references in books I read. I can't tell you how often a line of poetry or quote from another work in whatever I'm reading has led me to something new and interesting to read.
And I'm so glad the poems I chose help define Katie & Jay's feelings! Thank you, Debi!
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Hey Page >>> -- Esther, 14:14:17 04/21/10 Wed
I don't think I've ever commented on the poetry you have introduced through your characters before. So yay for a homework giving me an opportunity!
Okay. So I think what you have here is perfect. It is woven in beautifully, and so seamlessly, and the name of the author doesn't stand out as odd, nor do I, as a reader who knows nothing about poetry, feel like an idiot for not recognizing the poem in the first place. When Katie and Jay quote the poem, it is in harmony with the emotion that the few words of poetry convey.
Beautiful, I say. Just beautiful.
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Aw, shucks >>> -- Page, 20:56:52 05/06/10 Thu
>Okay. So I think what you have here is perfect. It
>is woven in beautifully, and so seamlessly, and the
>name of the author doesn't stand out as odd, nor do I,
>as a reader who knows nothing about poetry, feel like
>an idiot for not recognizing the poem in the first
>place. When Katie and Jay quote the poem, it is in
>harmony with the emotion that the few words of poetry
>convey.
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>Beautiful, I say. Just beautiful.
Thank you! I can't tell you how much I appreciate that! To know I'm doing what I set out to do by incorporating those poems makes my day! Thank you, sweetie!
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