{"id":89692,"date":"2012-05-29T21:00:47","date_gmt":"2012-05-30T01:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/89692\/pic-apart-celebrates-elizabeth-barrett-browning\/"},"modified":"2012-05-29T21:00:47","modified_gmt":"2012-05-30T01:00:47","slug":"pic-apart-celebrates-elizabeth-barrett-browning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/89692\/pic-apart-celebrates-elizabeth-barrett-browning\/","title":{"rendered":"PIC-APART CELEBRATES MAY WITH ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Pic-Apart Celebrates May With Elizabeth Barrett Browning<\/strong><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

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Welcome to the May 2012 edition of Pic-Apart Poetry.<\/p>\n

This month we feature Elizabeth Barrett Browning, a poet who celebrates so many facets of love in such a special way. “How do I love Thee? Let me count the ways” from her SONNETS FROM THE PORTUGUESE is perhaps one of the most recognizable poetic lines ever written. <\/font><\/font><\/strong><\/div>\n

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<\/font>One of her earlier pieces — “Minstrelsy” — celebrates Nature and Summer <\/font><\/strong><\/div>\n

and Poetry and love in rich images that continue to touch our hearts. <\/font><\/strong><\/div>\n

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MINSTRELSY<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

For ever, since my childish looks<\/span>
Could rest on Nature’s pictured books;<\/span>
For ever, since my childish tongue<\/span>
Could name the themes our bards have sung;<\/span>
So long, the sweetness of their singing<\/span>
Hath been to me a rapture bringing!<\/span>
Yet ask me not the reason why<\/span>
I have delight in minstrelsy.<\/span><\/p>\n

I know that much whereof I sing,<\/span>
Is shapen but for vanishing;<\/span>
I know that summer’s flower and leaf<\/span>
And shine and shade are very brief,<\/span>
And that the heart they brighten, may,<\/span>
Before them all, be sheathed in clay! —<\/span>
I do not know the reason why<\/span>
I have delight in minstrelsy.<\/span><\/p>\n

A few there are, whose smile and praise<\/span>
My minstrel hope, would kindly raise:<\/span>
But, of those few — Death may impress<\/span>
The lips of some with silentness;<\/span>
While some may friendship’s faith resign,<\/span>
And heed no more a song of mine. —<\/span>
Ask not, ask not the reason why<\/span>
I have delight in minstrelsy.<\/span><\/p>\n

The sweetest song that minstrels sing,<\/span>
Will charm not Joy to tarrying;<\/span>
The greenest bay that earth can grow,<\/span>
Will shelter not in burning woe;<\/span>
A thousand voices will not cheer,<\/span>
When one is mute that aye is dear! —<\/span>
Is there, alas! no reason why<\/span>
I have delight in minstrelsy.<\/span><\/p>\n

I do not know! The turf is green<\/span>
Beneath the rain’s fast-dropping sheen,<\/span>
Yet asks not why that deeper hue<\/span>
Doth all its tender leaves renew; —<\/span>
And I, like-minded, am content,<\/span>
While music to my soul is sent,<\/span>
To question not the reason why<\/span>
I have delight in minstrelsy.<\/span><\/p>\n

Years pass — my life with them shall pass:<\/span>
And soon, the cricket in the grass<\/span>
And summer bird, shall louder sing<\/span>
Than she who owns a minstrel’s string.<\/span>
Oh then may some, the dear and few,<\/span>
Recall her love, whose truth they knew;<\/span>
When all forget to question why<\/span>
She had delight in minstrelsy!<\/span><\/p>\n

Elizabeth Barrett Browning<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

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And her Sonnet XLIV<\/strong> celebrates love
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XLIV<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

Beloved, thou hast brought me many flowers<\/span>
Plucked in the garden, all the summer through<\/span>
And winter, and it seemed as if they grew<\/span>
In this close room, nor missed the sun and showers.<\/span>
So, in the like name of that love of ours,<\/span>
Take back these thoughts which here unfolded too,<\/span>
And which on warm and cold days I withdrew<\/span>
From my heart’s ground. Indeed, those beds and bowers<\/span>
Be overgrown with bitter weeds and rue,<\/span>
And wait thy weeding; yet here’s eglantine,<\/span>
Here ‘s ivy !–take them, as I used to do<\/span>
Thy flowers, and keep them where they shall not pine.<\/span>
Instruct thine eyes to keep their colors true,<\/span>
And tell thy soul their roots are left in mine.<\/span><\/p>\n

Elizabeth Barrett Browning<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

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Please select your 25 words from these two poems
\nand create a new piece (or pieces)
\nof your own using only those 25 words.<\/p>\n

Remember though that the words
\nmay be repeated and the tenses changed
\nso that your piece may be well over 25 total words.<\/p>\n

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You’re most definitely not limited to a 25-word piece.<\/p>\n

And who’s really counting anyway?<\/p>\n

The object is to have fun with this
\nand to share with one another.<\/p>\n

And finally, some links to further EBB information:<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.poets.org\/poet.php\/prmPID\/152<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.gale.cengage.com\/free_resources\/poets\/bio\/browning_e.htm<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.poetryfoundation.org\/bio\/elizabeth-barrett-browning<\/p>\n

Delighting in the pieces you bring to share with us,
\nwe look forward to spending this time together.<\/p>\n


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It’s always a such a joy to be here with you each month<\/p>\n

and such fun we have sharing poetry and creating<\/p>\n

with the 25 words selected from the posted pieces.<\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font>
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\nWe look forward to what you bring to share with us tonight <\/strong>and throughout tomorrow as Pic-Apart Poetry celebrates May with Elizabeth Barrett Browning.<\/strong><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

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\n~Barb K and Cherie~<\/font><\/font><\/strong><\/div>\n

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