tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8352560.post1321403991959699370..comments2023-11-03T04:58:42.247-07:00Comments on White Light Black Light: D.H. LawrenceAlicehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13038018719406067477noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8352560.post-16575149709351626002009-01-29T19:01:00.000-08:002009-01-29T19:01:00.000-08:00Awesome - that read very nicely along with this so...Awesome - that read very nicely along with this song<BR/><BR/>http://jenrobinson.fm/content/Best%20of%202008/07%20Strange%20Overtones.mp3Alicehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13038018719406067477noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8352560.post-63602693020908351042009-01-29T15:02:00.000-08:002009-01-29T15:02:00.000-08:00As far as his poetry, my favorite is one written a...As far as his poetry, my favorite is one written at the end of his life, but not published until he had passed away.<BR/><BR/>It's called 'Bavarian Gentians':<BR/><BR/><BR/>Not every man has gentians in his house<BR/>in soft September, at slow, sad Michaelmas.<BR/><BR/>Bavarian gentians, big and dark, only dark<BR/>darkening the daytime, torch-like, with the smoking blueness of Pluto's<BR/>gloom,<BR/>ribbed and torch-like, with their blaze of darkness spread blue<BR/>down flattening into points, flattened under the sweep of white day<BR/>torch-flower of the blue-smoking darkness, Pluto's dark-blue daze,<BR/>black lamps from the halls of Dis, burning dark blue,<BR/>giving off darkness, blue darkness, as Demeter's pale lamps give off<BR/>light,<BR/>lead me then, lead the way.<BR/><BR/>Reach me a gentian, give me a torch!<BR/>let me guide myself with the blue, forked torch of this flower<BR/>down the darker and darker stairs, where blue is darkened on blueness<BR/>even where Persephone goes, just now, from the frosted September<BR/>to the sightless realm where darkness is awake upon the dark<BR/>and Persephone herself is but a voice<BR/>or a darkness invisible enfolded in the deeper dark<BR/>of the arms Plutonic, and pierced with the passion of dense gloom,<BR/>among the splendor of torches of darkness, shedding darkness on<BR/>the lost bride and her groom.Majase Cychttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06087368968750118051noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8352560.post-47238551980185669772009-01-29T09:43:00.000-08:002009-01-29T09:43:00.000-08:00Hi!Thanks for popping in! That is allegedly one of...Hi!<BR/><BR/>Thanks for popping in! That is allegedly one of the most erotic poems where nothing "graphic" is written... :)<BR/><BR/>What's your favorite D.H. writing?<BR/><BR/>All Good Things,<BR/>-AliceAlicehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13038018719406067477noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8352560.post-37420420762998925912009-01-28T17:21:00.000-08:002009-01-28T17:21:00.000-08:00Great choice Alice!I read Lawrence often, and this...Great choice Alice!<BR/><BR/>I read Lawrence often, and this is one of my faves.Majase Cychttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06087368968750118051noreply@blogger.com