use Perl

• It's good... (Score:1)

  by pdcawley (485)

  Very good, but it can't hold a candle to Do not go gentle into that good night, which is probably the best villanelle ever written by a comfortable margin.
  • Re:It's good... (Score:2)

    by darobin (1316)

    Bah. I'll concede that Do not go gentle is a much better villanelle as such, but it's a lesser poem ;) (though still very good).

    I'd completely forgotten about villanelles. I'm currently spending my afternoon writing some instead of Java, and they're of course a lot more fun despite (or perhaps because) their being a lot more B&D. It's a perfect form for when you haven't slept and no more than two ideas can fit into your brain :)

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    -- Robin Berjon [berjon.com]
    • Re:It's good... (Score:1)

      by pdcawley (485)

      I have to disagree about it being the lesser poem as well. But taste's like that.
• Auden! (Score:2)

  by gnat (29)

  Auden is my favourite poet, by a very long shot. Not only was he able to move easily between comedy and tragedy, he was a master of form. I bought "Collected Poems" [amazon.com] in the mid-90s and it has well repaid the investment.

  --Nat
  • Re:Auden! (Score:2)

    by davorg (18)

    I bought "Collected Poems" [amazon.com] in the mid-90s

    That wouldn't have been shortly after seeing Four Weddings and a Funeral would it? That seems to be when most people bought it :)