Week Eleven - The Garden

[petetucker]

So Gardens are a place where we can go to relax our souls? Hmmm. I have a problem with this line of thought. Andrew Marvell has obviously never visited the garden of a contemporary household before. Gardens can be alot of work. Alot of work! The resting of one's soul will only take place after their back cramps up so bad from pruning weeds that

Comments

[itwasonlyakriss]

LMAO. Well stated, Pete. I thoroughly enjoyed that.

Optimist?

[clarebear_g]

I love the way you always look on the bright side of things ;) I had just been thinking of writing a post on that poem, I was going to talk about how beautiful and relaxing it sounded to 'repose' in a garden. The beautiful flowers blossoming giving off sweet smelling aromas, big greeen trees giving shade on a nice warm day. I could imagine the birds chirping in the trees and butterflies fluttering to and fro about the garden. In the distance a waterfall stirring up water in a river....However, after reading your post I see things from a different perspectives. Perhaps you are right, gardens are hard work to up keep and is it really comfortable reposing on the ground?
Actually, I did like your point about the gardner having to keep the garden in order otherwise it would turn out like 'society'. Breaking rules and stuff.
I'll go now, but can i just say great last stanza...

[sonya_tells]

I would like to also comment on Pete's "Garden" post. I feel that Pete's review (which is more like a short story, including graphics), of the poem is an interesting criticism, what a stirrer... Pete has gone to an extreme to explain how he feels about a poem written about a blokes preference to a tree rather than a woman. He has a rather earthy approach, used a varied colour scheme, and even reminisced about his own time in the garden. He has used variants of the colour green, which is a cool/obvious colour to use when describing someone's garden. Pete has also given us a visual description by giving the reader plenty of images to peruse to understand further what precisely he is discussing, which has helped enormously to understand what it is exactly, that he is explaining to the reader.

I thoroughly enjoyed Pete's review, although I would have preferred the picture of Jamie Durie in his other outfit...(not from the garden show)

[fadia]

I too would love a picture of Jamie Durie in his other outfit i also loved your last stanza it hits the nail right into the garden shed!!!!!!!!

[michaelgriffith]

Fabulous Pete... creative excitement in your Journal... well done... I wonder could you write me a short paragraph that says how LiveJournal has added value to Literature study and what it has added to WebCT... I am going to Chicago in 2 weeks and could use a comment from someone who works so well in the medium.
Cheers
MG