Wow, if someone had said your poem wasn't you but a Browning I'd have believed them.Maybe not Browning but definitely Elisabeth BB seeing as is from female perspective, hints of Aurora Leigh and all that.
Enjoyed as ever your notes at the bottom
Have always had a bit of an interest in porphyria as a disease effecting royal family.Its this, if you have a historical leader king or politician who is suffering from a medical condition what potential impact does it have on history whether it's Napoleon having haemorrhoids at Waterloo or an obviously paranoid and mentally disturbed Stalin being let loose on the Russian people.
George the 3rd was a direct descendant of Mary Queen of Scots.Her son James the 1st was said to have urine the colour of port wine [a symptom of acute intermittent porphyria ] It may have come via Charles the v1 of France whose daughter Catherine was mother of Henry the 6th who was known to have episodes of madness and then she married Owen Tudor and thus ancestress to Mary etc.
Poor George, his doctor used to take him to his home Raven Hall near Scarborough I've stayed at the hotel there in the past and often imagined him pacing the grounds
Interesting stuff. Clever teaching device too, as a collector of poetry books as a kid - some of which are now 200 yrs old - I found them impenetrable. But maybe now I can look closer, appreciate better. Odd really, as I lap up - and did back then - Dickensian drama and convoluted texts.
It lead me to heavy dictionary use but alas, poor poetry, was all about a never ending processionof Greeks I'd never heard of; that I blame squarely on schools that talked about God more than Pythagoras, Vasco De Gama et al - leaving us to fret about how we will be punished.
It is however a style or genre that lies outside of even the most verbose of current contemporaries.
This brief and straight-shooting analysis does more for me on that count than my brief subscription to Poetry Review - a brick of indecipherable block text through my rosy window indeed.
Wow, if someone had said your poem wasn't you but a Browning I'd have believed them.Maybe not Browning but definitely Elisabeth BB seeing as is from female perspective, hints of Aurora Leigh and all that.
Enjoyed as ever your notes at the bottom
Have always had a bit of an interest in porphyria as a disease effecting royal family.Its this, if you have a historical leader king or politician who is suffering from a medical condition what potential impact does it have on history whether it's Napoleon having haemorrhoids at Waterloo or an obviously paranoid and mentally disturbed Stalin being let loose on the Russian people.
George the 3rd was a direct descendant of Mary Queen of Scots.Her son James the 1st was said to have urine the colour of port wine [a symptom of acute intermittent porphyria ] It may have come via Charles the v1 of France whose daughter Catherine was mother of Henry the 6th who was known to have episodes of madness and then she married Owen Tudor and thus ancestress to Mary etc.
Poor George, his doctor used to take him to his home Raven Hall near Scarborough I've stayed at the hotel there in the past and often imagined him pacing the grounds
Interesting stuff. Clever teaching device too, as a collector of poetry books as a kid - some of which are now 200 yrs old - I found them impenetrable. But maybe now I can look closer, appreciate better. Odd really, as I lap up - and did back then - Dickensian drama and convoluted texts.
It lead me to heavy dictionary use but alas, poor poetry, was all about a never ending processionof Greeks I'd never heard of; that I blame squarely on schools that talked about God more than Pythagoras, Vasco De Gama et al - leaving us to fret about how we will be punished.
It is however a style or genre that lies outside of even the most verbose of current contemporaries.
This brief and straight-shooting analysis does more for me on that count than my brief subscription to Poetry Review - a brick of indecipherable block text through my rosy window indeed.
I’m so impressed at how well your response poem matches the original in style and content
Thank you Julia. I am pretty good at pastiche - It's a style of my own that I lack :)