This is a fabulous post, Mike, that totally captures the spirit of Halloween. I will restack the poem 'Vampires' from it because I like it so much. But, before I do so, I have one question for you: In what way is 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner' a Halloween poem?
I'm glad you like my poem "Vampires" and I think fans of Halloween will like it too. I have included "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" because it features a ship of the dead/undead. Ditto for "The Highwayman" with its ghostly protagonists.
Yes, sequels seldom live up to the originals. The first Friday the 13th movie was actually pretty good, in a gory way. After that, disaster after disaster.
I have long suspected that Byron inspired the creature in Mary Shelly's "Frankenstein," due to his troubled relationship with his Creator and his club foot.
I love Samuel Taylor Coleridge he’s a poet I turn too!
I particularly like his "Rime" and he was an astute literary critic as well. Too bad about the man from Porlock!
This is a fabulous post, Mike, that totally captures the spirit of Halloween. I will restack the poem 'Vampires' from it because I like it so much. But, before I do so, I have one question for you: In what way is 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner' a Halloween poem?
I'm glad you like my poem "Vampires" and I think fans of Halloween will like it too. I have included "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" because it features a ship of the dead/undead. Ditto for "The Highwayman" with its ghostly protagonists.
Ah, now I get it! Thanks for telling me that. It's a crucial detail I often overlook when I am reading it.
Coleridge's ship of the dead/undead may have been the inspiration for the popular Pirates of the Caribbean movies.
I like those movies. Well, the first two. Then they got a bit repetitive.
Yes, sequels seldom live up to the originals. The first Friday the 13th movie was actually pretty good, in a gory way. After that, disaster after disaster.
Poets I am meeting for the first time, thank you so much, I took all afternoon to read VAMPIRE POETRY
I'm glad you found my Vampire Poetry page interesting enough to read so thoroughly. Some pretty good pictures too, I think.
Lovely pictures
Some of my favorites, glad you liked them.
The Giaour
George Gordon, Lord Byron
I love him too, how could I not.
He’s over there hanging out
with all the rest
they like it here in the living room.
I have long suspected that Byron inspired the creature in Mary Shelly's "Frankenstein," due to his troubled relationship with his Creator and his club foot.
I didn’t know that.
It's a unique theory of mine. I haven't heard it anywhere else. I may write an article on the subject.
Yes, write an article, it hasn’t been written before, so write it, bring it alive, it lives, giggle giggle.
I think I shall!
Stellar
Wow
Some interesting history, I think.
Yeah man. Anne Rice
knew how to get rich
off the hierarchical history
of their bloodlust.
Ah, for a mansion in New Orleans.
Chistopher too could interest once,
I vaguely recall a Louisiana flood.
Stan probably never earned a dime,
but yet (I think) got honorably mentioned
every time.. Poetry in Chcago--
ah, what a conquest!
All just in jest.
Anne Rice certainly delved that mine for all it was worth.