tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17974015.post7405275398198908343..comments2024-03-15T01:11:32.832-07:00Comments on Bardiac: Too Cruel?Bardiachttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11846065504793800266noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17974015.post-53879383872911446542009-04-08T10:57:00.000-07:002009-04-08T10:57:00.000-07:00Oh, yay! Your blog is fun!But you're right; it's ...Oh, yay! Your blog is fun!<BR/><BR/>But you're right; it's so sad that happened to him.Inkhttp://inktopia7.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17974015.post-26586814328779480122009-04-06T19:32:00.000-07:002009-04-06T19:32:00.000-07:00at least i'm not the only one who thought of hemin...at least i'm not the only one who thought of hemingway. cattle, trample, drama: all there, but not particularly poetic.kathy a.https://www.blogger.com/profile/14479337952651746193noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17974015.post-48890939223035602662009-04-06T18:45:00.000-07:002009-04-06T18:45:00.000-07:00Yay Ink!And zeugma! (I love saying the word "zeug...Yay Ink!<BR/><BR/>And zeugma! (I love saying the word "zeugma"!)<BR/><BR/>But cruel, yeah, because the guy supposedly got tuberculosis of the spine and such. And, according to one of my friends, was stepped on in a very inopportune way, even beyond the spinal problem.Bardiachttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11846065504793800266noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17974015.post-57712962384426442442009-04-06T17:39:00.000-07:002009-04-06T17:39:00.000-07:00If it is a moment in literary history and not an a...If it is a moment in literary history and not an actual poem, is it maybe Alexander Pope's cow-trampling? (Hence the couplets?)Inkhttp://inktopia7.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17974015.post-77261809905998529902009-04-06T16:26:00.000-07:002009-04-06T16:26:00.000-07:00Not trampled to death, just trampled. It's really...Not trampled to death, just trampled. <BR/><BR/>It's really obscure, but there's a rhetorical flourish in the verse that might be a hint. (Did I just suggest that a bit of doggerel I wrote had rhetorical flourish?)Bardiachttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11846065504793800266noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17974015.post-54036676631743543902009-04-06T15:55:00.000-07:002009-04-06T15:55:00.000-07:00hmm, who gets trampled to death via heroic couplet...hmm, who gets trampled to death via heroic couplets? <BR/><BR/>I would point out that in Hemingway there's a lot of death by bull(shit), but he's not a big one for rhyme.Sisyphushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09880634753539329199noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17974015.post-22935674266552806212009-04-06T13:33:00.000-07:002009-04-06T13:33:00.000-07:00I'm not sure it's a "fact" so much as a story I he...I'm not sure it's a "fact" so much as a story I heard.<BR/><BR/>Yeah, I am a cruel and tasteless person :(Bardiachttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11846065504793800266noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17974015.post-43180935810325821242009-04-06T13:20:00.000-07:002009-04-06T13:20:00.000-07:00How interesting! (Your clue helped a lot.) I had...How interesting! (Your clue helped a lot.) I had no idea about that particular biographical fact, but since the writer in question lived in the Century That I Try To Ignore, that's not too surprising.Fretful Porpentinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11165078003123517013noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17974015.post-13894761627224938202009-04-06T12:50:00.000-07:002009-04-06T12:50:00.000-07:00There's a Greek myth about the woman Dirce who was...There's a Greek myth about the woman Dirce who was tied to a bull (possibly its horns) and dragged around until she was killed (or impaled). It shows up in Euripides' <I>Antiope</I>. Thanks Wikipedia for a <A HREF="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e6/Dirce.jpg" REL="nofollow">nifty painting</A> inspired thereby.<BR/><BR/>Yet somehow, I don't think that you were teaching <I>this</I> either.M. Paulehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08925739628467279898noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17974015.post-43447105913386910352009-04-06T12:09:00.000-07:002009-04-06T12:09:00.000-07:00I'm going to take a wild, and in all probability w...I'm going to take a wild, and in all probability wrongheaded, guess that you're teaching Federico Garcia Lorca's "Llanto por la muerte de Ignacio Sánchez Mejías," as it is the only example of Death By Cattle that comes to mind in connection with literature. I will be shocked if I'm right.Fretful Porpentinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11165078003123517013noreply@blogger.com