#Maybe one day I'll write a paper connecting hank to old English poetry
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some of hank williams' songs feel ancient. he reaches back further than himself into something dark and deep in the human psyche. he shares a lineage with the poets of old, with homer and vergil and shakespeare. he reads into the dark lonely depths of man, of nature, of earth, and sings of those with such ferocious, tender nostalgia that all the earth sings along with him. he's of another cloth entirely.
#Country music#Hank Williams#Poetry#sad about hank hours#Maybe one day I'll write a paper connecting hank to old English poetry#Or Appalachian/southern poets and old English poetry#Alone and forsaken feels so much like the wife's lament or the wanderer#Obviously shorter and modern#But so thematically connected
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