#12 poems

[p-isforpoetry]

12 poems read by Tom Hiddleston || Ximalaya FM Compilation (2019) [without music]

This is a re-upload of Tom reading poetry for Ximalaya FM from 2019 without the background music.

01: "The Mower" by Philip Larkin 02: "I Am!" by John Clare 03: "Strawberries" by Edwin Morgan 04: "Wild Geese" by Mary Oliver 05: "And the days are not full enough" by Ezra Pound 06: "Invictus" by William Ernest Henley 07: "Clenched Soul" by Pablo Neruda 08: "Words, Wide Night" by Carol Ann Duffy 09: "The Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost 10: "Diving into the Wreck" by Adrienne Rich 11: "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" by T.S. Eliot 12: "Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night" by Dylan Thomas

Source: Ximalaya FM

[spectrenun]

So I keep it, to myself— and it hurts.

Sylvia Plath

[natalaka-lalka]

12 poem challenge: january

mad girl's love song by sylvia plath

i don't really fw sylvia plath anymore (im on the path of love and life these days) but i still love this poem because it was like the first poem that i ever went into real detail annotating (outside of school), because so many ideas were flowing through my brain after i read it.

[geryone]

Bluff, Danez Smith

[isabellaofparma]

cold case rewatch (16/∞)

I came up from the dark without you and every day has been in shadow. I have begged the tide to wash away my sin and take me to you in the dark but every day I surface again.

2.22 - 'Best Friends'

[poemsonmars]

you told me that daisies

are your favorite flower

and i had to fight the urge

to plant a bouquet

of them in my lungs.

i want to cough up

petals and stems

when you smile at me.

i want to be so full of

your favorite things

that i forget how to breathe.

-mars

[katerinaaqu]

Wait...hold on hold on

HOLD ON!!!!!!!!!!!!!

How didn't I notice this?! 😲😲😲

In the Odyssey Odysseus shoots an arrow through 12 axes (everyone knows) but alongside with all the amazing symbolisms of number 12 like 12 gods or 12 moths or the year or 12 years or wandering or any for that matter we forgot another important number 12

12 ships!!!

Odysseus started his journey with 12 fucking ships!!! Odysseus ended his journey having lost 12 fucking ships!!

🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯

That shot was probably also fucking personal!

Homer you fucking absolute genius when I catch you!

[majestativa]

And her mouth was red as berries or fresh blood.

— PATRICK COLM HOGAN ⚜️ The Death of the Goddess: A Poem in 12 Cantos, (2014)

[crossbackpoke-check]

blessed be (lorscher bienensegen) | telling the bees (wiþ ymbe)

"Bees" [remixed, abridged], Claudia Emerson // "Letter to Someone Living Fifty Years from Now" [remixed, abridged], Matthew Olzmann // "Letter to my Great, Great Grandchild" [remixed, abridged], J.P. Grasser | Len Redkole, Nina Weiss, Brian Babineau, Christian Peterson, Mitchell Leff, Dave Isaac, Megan DeRuchie

[ad-venturism]

Nothing

To do nothing but stare at a wall, watch the sun wash over old paint. To cry because something blew into my eye. I thought of something funny and remembered your face. To cut a carrot the slow way, julienning each disc, one by one, to put my face over the pot as hot water boils. To do nothing but fold my clothes as if my hand was an iron. To watch your yawn like a slow-motion movie. To touch the thin film of dust without rushing to wipe it away. To write as if I were talking to myself. To do nothing the whole day. To fill it to the brim with nothing, nothing but nothing.

[batcavescolony]

I'm so dumb, Lucy Gray/Solitude by William Wordsworth the poem Lucy Gray Baird is named after? It's about a girl that goes missing right? Obviously we know that cus then Lucy Gray Baird went missing so it's round about. But she went missing because of a Snowstorm...like how Lucy Gray Baird is missing because of Coriolanus Snow. it's 1am and my brain just put that together.

[bdgonhldy]

[querkynchaotic]

In epic the musical Odysseus says « I took 600 men to war and not one of them died there »

But now I’m reading the Iliad and one guy from ody’s army got killed and I feel

BETRAYED

Me rn :

[talktomeafter12]

As I flip through the pages,

That hold my memories of past,

I search through lines,

For I'm lost somewhere there,

I wonder to myslef,

If I'm looking at the right place,

But then I see it,

Your essence lingers every line,

In the margins and at the bottom,

From your name to your laughs,

From your shames to your crys,

And it took me a moment,

To understand that,

I flippers throught to pages,

That's hold my memories of past,

Searching for you.

[katerinaaqu]

Why did Achilles sacrifice those 12 Trojans to Patroclus? Would people in Homer's time have understood it or would it have been extreme to them?

Well, as Achilles himself stated that would be because of his anger that a Trojan slay Patroclus. In one way it was revenge. Now the number 12 is a reoccurring number in Homer that could represent many things from the 12 gods and the 12 months till one can see it as 4s and 3s in disguise each one of them have their own meaning (for example four seasons or three pillars of the world heaven earth and underworld etc)

Achilles in his fury wants to slay a certain number of Trojans for the sakes of his companion that he lost and he slays them on the funeral pyre alongside with two out of the nine dogs Patroclus had. In one way he almost seems like "sending people to serve him" in the underworld. In one way sends him captives aka slaves, to serve Patroclus in the underworld. Perhaps even further wishing to humiliate and destroy Troy aka the youth of Troy serving Patroclus in the underworld.

It definitely is an extreme measure. Human sacrifice was seen as appalling by the Greeks in various parts of the myths (see for example Iphigenia in Aulis as her sacrifice seen as something horrifying or Iphigenia herself performing human sacrifice in the foreign land of Tauris and lamenting herself for her fate). By n large human sacrifice of one individual alone seems terrible yet alone of 12 at the same time as if they were animals for the sacrifice. Not to mention that the offering was done for a mortal, not a god. That was lowkey hubris as well as inhumane action that oftentimes Greeks associated with foreigners and not with themselves. In fact in mythology we have very few occurances in which gods demand human sacrifice as a test to humans that offend them and they are generally seen at a very tragic context.

Now as to why the Greeks didn't say a word neither when Achilles declared he would do it or when he actually did it well for once as you remember no one seemed to be willing to stand in the way of Achilles in that state of madness and sorrow he was in the same way that no one dared to stand against him when he took his time upon stripping the body of Hector and tied it to his chariot:

However there could be an even more terrible reason behind it. Just like with the events of Aulis, the soldiers ended up demanding the human sacrifice of Iphigenia in here they seem silent. That could be because of the fever of battle. The Greeks see Achilles annihilating Trojans. At that point little would it matter how, they all wanted to be done with the war. They even felt some kind of wild triumph, I suspect, seeing the Trojans being slaughtered like sacrificial cattle. The sorrow for the loss of a great fighter was mixed with their newly accquired happiness that Achilles was back in game and gaining ground alongside with the fact that Achilles killed Hector, the best warrior of the enemy side. They could already feel the tables turning or at least hoped for it. The wild triumph they would feel would make them not see the terrible or extreme part of Achilles's action (or the fact he had just dragged the body of Hector around Troy performing asebeia to the gods and the dead, two of the greatest sins ever), they only see triumphant Achilles showing his dominance over the enemy.

Every time I think about it truly makes me shiver at how amazing potential Homer's writing has!

[majestativa]

But her hair was black as a moonless night, or as the poison he still held inside his throat.

— PATRICK COLM HOGAN ⚜️ The Death of the Goddess: A Poem in 12 Cantos, (2014)