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While at some times she seems to be rambling or making no sense(she over uses the words doing, everything), her point rings true to me. You need idle time to un
by Flozzin 9y ago
While at some times she seems to be rambling or making no sense(she over uses the words doing, everything), her point rings true to me. You need idle time to understand yourself.
I have seen other sources say that kids need downtime. To just use their imagination. Constantly having your eyes glued to TV or your phone does not make a healthy person.
She also mentions that people make the mistake of 'over-doing'. Which I also agree with.
While I feel like she could have made her case clearer and cleaner(although she was writing to a child so maybe this is perfect), I agree with her.
- dang 9y agoRiding was a modernist poet with a bunch of radical theories about language so it's not surprising she was using words in an unconventional way, even with an eight-year-old. IIRC she was Robert Graves' partner for many years, and later in life was something like a spiritual teacher seeking truth in language, of all places. Martin Seymour-Smith, who single-handedly wrote a great big encyclopedia of 20th century literature, regarded her as the best 20th century poet in English.
- QAPereo 9y agoMy knowledge of American poetry is abysmal, but this sounds intriguing. Do you know of any good starting points to read about her work, and her life?
- thyrsus 9y agoI have a 1973 edition of the "Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry", which includes six of her poems. I think the volume serves its purpose well, and includes a nice balance of British and American poets. From the brief biography included: "After 1939, when she returned to the United States, she renounced poetry and wrote no more poems: she came to see poetry as obstructing the dedicated use of words for truth that it invited."