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| How Do I Love Thee... by fileg | 6 Review(s) |
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| Chigger | Reviewed Chapter: 7 on 1/29/2004 |
| There you go again! :) I know I'm probably sounding rather redundant right now, but I love all of these! They flow! I hate poetry that doesn't flow. So thank you again, for posting these. I enjoyed them very much. :) Author Reply: This is another form that I wasn't sure about. I am not so sure Finduilas convinces me about Denethor, but she did convince me she was strong and independant, and that was a new place for me. It made me rethink Denethor if I had to consider that Finduilas really passionately loved him - and how could they have produced those beautiful boys if she didn't! | |
| Chigger | Reviewed Chapter: 3 on 1/29/2004 |
| Too cute! I think this one's my favorite so far! (I think cute is the only word to describe anything hobbity. :) ) But I love the idea of Fastred writing his sweet little wife poetry. And about elanor sent by Galadriel . . . Ah! Too good! Thank you so much for sharing your talent! Author Reply: This one was the hardest of the love peoms to write. I don't seem to be as at ease without a little bit of dark to set off the light. So this one was work, and I am glad it pleased you! | |
| Chigger | Reviewed Chapter: 2 on 1/29/2004 |
| Very romantic, Thengel. :) But I really must agree with him; there is no sound so lovely as the scraping-ring of a sword unsheathed. That even beats the sound of a single action .45 being cocked. :) I just have one question (besides what the heck is a cywydd llosgyrnog O_o). How do you DO that? Gosh, if I could rhyme like that, I'd be having a ball! But no, I'll just have to content myself with reading yours. :) Author Reply: I love that sound too, as I guess you could tell. very full of purpose! On the writing page of my website, there is a short guide to some of the interlocked verse forms I have been using. Go to http://www.gryphonsmith.com/fileg/tay/taypage.html, and click down to the poems, and you will find the link. A Cywydd Llosgrynog is one of the traditional forms of Welsh Bardic verse - this is just an approximation, because there are paired sounds in Welsh that we don't have in English - but I followed the very strict structure of where the syllables have to rhyme. The end of the line rhymes are not hard, but the repeating rhyme that has to fall exactly on the third syllable of the third lines can make you pull your hair out. The Cywydd Llosgyrnog is pronounced (approximately) cuh-with lo-seer-nock and that started me thinking about Morwen of Lossarnach Take a look at the instructions for the interlocked poetry, and give it a try. I will be glad to answer questions if you need me! All I can tell you about how I do it is that I need the idea before the words. If I know what I want to say, I have a goal. Sometimes I write just to put words together, like a big party, and I learn a lot, but I seldom get a *finished* result. | |
| Chigger | Reviewed Chapter: 1 on 1/29/2004 |
| I'm assuming that this is from Eowyn's point of view? If it is, then it came off probably even better than you could have hoped, because she's sitting right next to me. We have the Two Towers box-calendar right next to the computer, and today it's Eowyn looking out at me. :) Again, wonderfully written, and I'm going back for more. :) Author Reply: I wanted to write this so it could be read from Eowyn's point of view (though I left it a little open ended, because it was also a gift to My Faramir, My husband Jim, from me) But I also wanted it to feel like it could be read in Faramir's voice, at least in some places. I think love poems that are not for two voices are a little sad -- when the love and the lines are reciprocal, it makes me very happy. | |
| Chigger | Reviewed Chapter: 5 on 1/29/2004 |
| First of all, I found this by poking around on my own. It was only through reading the review that I found out I was supposed to read it. :) It must have slipped Eomer's mind. Anyway, I liked both of them very much, and I plan on reading more of your poems and such. Honestly, I love poems that rhyme, as yours did, but some people just don't have the talent they think they do. (As shown in Pippin's Bad Poetry.) But yours was very enjoyable. :) Author Reply: Hello Chigger! I am glad you liked the poems. I do write some free and blank verse, but I like the rhythm of structured pieces. This year I got very much interested in the "obsessive" forms where entire lines must be repeated in a pattern. It does not always give me the perfect ansewr for a lione, but I feel very acomplisehd when I finish one. | |
| EomerofEastfold | Reviewed Chapter: 5 on 1/15/2004 |
| Hello, Fileg, I knew you not to be on SoA, and I am more than surprised to see that your poems have had no reviews. Very strange. Well, let me be the first then. I absolutely adore Unquenchable, and I will have to see if I can get the ever faithful reader of my stories, Chigger, to take a gander at it. Really and truly, I know of few better poets than you. Verse must come easily to you. :) Author Reply: Hi Eomer! I am glad to see you are still around in the fandom, and I very much hope that you are still writing. I am here, and at HASA, but latley I have been spending a lot of time in my live journal ( Fileg's Flight: http://www.livejournal.com/users/fileg/) and I have been writing a lot of short pieces that I need to collect and post here an on my own site. I am glad you like the poems - poetry doesn't have much of an audience, but that isn't why I write it. There is something that excites me about getting many layers of meaning into only a few words. SOmetimes verse comes easily to me - the part that many people think is hard does - that is, how to use one image to mean something else, or hopefully many tings as the poem unfolds. But I sometimes struggle with rhyme, just because the obvious choices seem obvious, or forced. I enjoy the game of these very structured forms. It was very good to hear from you again! | |