WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:00.840 align:middle line:90% 00:00:00.840 --> 00:00:04.230 align:middle line:84% There are-- some of the mimeographed ones are 00:00:04.230 --> 00:00:08.568 align:middle line:84% rather long and I guess now I want to try to do these. 00:00:08.568 --> 00:00:10.110 align:middle line:84% I'll point out, though since you have 00:00:10.110 --> 00:00:13.425 align:middle line:84% them what I was trying to do a poem like "Decline and Fall"-- 00:00:13.425 --> 00:00:17.710 align:middle line:90% 00:00:17.710 --> 00:00:21.340 align:middle line:90% Oh, all right, one long one. 00:00:21.340 --> 00:00:24.340 align:middle line:84% "Decline and Fall" is a love poem 00:00:24.340 --> 00:00:27.460 align:middle line:84% in terms of the fall of the Roman Empire. 00:00:27.460 --> 00:00:32.140 align:middle line:84% It has a kind a doubleness of meaning. 00:00:32.140 --> 00:00:35.860 align:middle line:84% It was written in Rome when I was very aware 00:00:35.860 --> 00:00:40.450 align:middle line:84% of the ruins about the city and it seemed to me 00:00:40.450 --> 00:00:44.110 align:middle line:84% that this imagery served very well as imagery 00:00:44.110 --> 00:00:49.540 align:middle line:84% for a love that also went to pieces, that fell into ruins. 00:00:49.540 --> 00:00:54.160 align:middle line:84% And so what about a relationship between two people 00:00:54.160 --> 00:00:57.850 align:middle line:84% and everything has a kind of double meaning in the poem. 00:00:57.850 --> 00:01:00.550 align:middle line:90% 00:01:00.550 --> 00:01:03.610 align:middle line:90% From the title on I guess. 00:01:03.610 --> 00:01:07.990 align:middle line:84% "We had a city also hand in hand, wandered, happy 00:01:07.990 --> 00:01:10.450 align:middle line:90% as travelers our own land. 00:01:10.450 --> 00:01:13.780 align:middle line:84% Murmured in turn the hearsay of each stone 00:01:13.780 --> 00:01:17.770 align:middle line:84% or where a legend faltered lived our own. 00:01:17.770 --> 00:01:21.460 align:middle line:84% The far seen obelisk, my father set. 00:01:21.460 --> 00:01:25.660 align:middle line:84% Spinning two roads forever where they met way of this 00:01:25.660 --> 00:01:29.080 align:middle line:84% in wandering circles turned our Tread 00:01:29.080 --> 00:01:33.730 align:middle line:84% where once more less engulfed that passionate head. 00:01:33.730 --> 00:01:37.810 align:middle line:84% Cornice rose and Rangers rose so high. 00:01:37.810 --> 00:01:42.430 align:middle line:84% It saw no sky that forum, but noon sky. 00:01:42.430 --> 00:01:45.310 align:middle line:90% Marble shone like shallows. 00:01:45.310 --> 00:01:52.750 align:middle line:84% Columns too streamed with cool light as rocks and breakers do. 00:01:52.750 --> 00:01:57.880 align:middle line:84% All marble many colored as reach of thought tones so recollected 00:01:57.880 --> 00:01:59.830 align:middle line:90% and so distraught. 00:01:59.830 --> 00:02:04.180 align:middle line:84% Golden like swimmers when the August shore brightens 00:02:04.180 --> 00:02:09.610 align:middle line:84% their folklore poses more and more or gray with silver. 00:02:09.610 --> 00:02:12.820 align:middle line:84% Moons swirling spell over the breathless 00:02:12.820 --> 00:02:15.340 align:middle line:90% our lives we knew well. 00:02:15.340 --> 00:02:22.510 align:middle line:84% Every shoulders there that summer dressed curve to come, 00:02:22.510 --> 00:02:26.380 align:middle line:84% curved to come shyly naked then find rest. 00:02:26.380 --> 00:02:31.600 align:middle line:84% The tresses love disheveled leaning dazed and grateful 00:02:31.600 --> 00:02:35.350 align:middle line:84% or the wayward stone that blazed his cheeks do 00:02:35.350 --> 00:02:38.500 align:middle line:90% or as eyes hath lowered flare. 00:02:38.500 --> 00:02:42.700 align:middle line:84% Violet as veins are, love knows where. 00:02:42.700 --> 00:02:49.570 align:middle line:84% Fine coral as the shy and wild tongue tip, undersea coral rich 00:02:49.570 --> 00:02:51.790 align:middle line:90% has inner lip. 00:02:51.790 --> 00:02:54.790 align:middle line:90% There was a stone to build on. 00:02:54.790 --> 00:03:01.120 align:middle line:84% Phrases ran and strong corals that where they closed begin. 00:03:01.120 --> 00:03:04.900 align:middle line:84% And statues each rang our ringing phrase 00:03:04.900 --> 00:03:09.670 align:middle line:84% in the souls passionate cadence of her days. 00:03:09.670 --> 00:03:13.870 align:middle line:84% Oh stone so matched and massive worked so well. 00:03:13.870 --> 00:03:17.560 align:middle line:84% Who could believe it when the first brick fell? 00:03:17.560 --> 00:03:21.520 align:middle line:84% Who could imagine the unlucky word with dark into the world 00:03:21.520 --> 00:03:23.320 align:middle line:90% wide sigh we heard? 00:03:23.320 --> 00:03:28.760 align:middle line:90% 00:03:28.760 --> 00:03:32.510 align:middle line:84% How our eyes wrenched together and held fast each face 00:03:32.510 --> 00:03:34.670 align:middle line:90% tightening to a chalky cast? 00:03:34.670 --> 00:03:39.440 align:middle line:84% So poor a copy of one hour before." 00:03:39.440 --> 00:03:41.180 align:middle line:84% I think this was too long in here. 00:03:41.180 --> 00:03:42.950 align:middle line:84% I'm going to skip to that division. 00:03:42.950 --> 00:03:48.290 align:middle line:84% I think these lines ought to be cut to soon the barbarians. 00:03:48.290 --> 00:03:50.930 align:middle line:84% "Soon the barbarians swarmed like locusts 00:03:50.930 --> 00:03:55.580 align:middle line:84% blown between the flood and spasm of our stone grunted 00:03:55.580 --> 00:03:59.990 align:middle line:84% to tug their huts and marble sties where phrases broke 00:03:59.990 --> 00:04:02.750 align:middle line:90% like foam in the blue skies. 00:04:02.750 --> 00:04:06.350 align:middle line:84% Blue noses poked, recoiling as they 00:04:06.350 --> 00:04:10.670 align:middle line:84% found our young and gladite statues underground. 00:04:10.670 --> 00:04:16.220 align:middle line:84% Singing salvation, the lewd chisel peck said boy and girl 00:04:16.220 --> 00:04:19.190 align:middle line:90% one mutilated sex. 00:04:19.190 --> 00:04:23.270 align:middle line:84% All our high moments cheapened, greed and grime 00:04:23.270 --> 00:04:27.890 align:middle line:84% charred them and rickety studies to quick lime. 00:04:27.890 --> 00:04:29.480 align:middle line:90% Murderous world. 00:04:29.480 --> 00:04:32.630 align:middle line:84% That town that seemed as star rows 00:04:32.630 --> 00:04:36.080 align:middle line:84% in our soul and there the ruins are. 00:04:36.080 --> 00:04:38.750 align:middle line:90% Will not walk there again. 00:04:38.750 --> 00:04:42.080 align:middle line:84% Who would wish to walk where the rats gather 00:04:42.080 --> 00:04:44.660 align:middle line:90% and gray tourist talk? 00:04:44.660 --> 00:04:50.060 align:middle line:84% Who'd walk there even alive or a bit as ghost trail phosphor 00:04:50.060 --> 00:04:51.605 align:middle line:90% on the melancholy coast?" 00:04:51.605 --> 00:04:55.310 align:middle line:90% 00:04:55.310 --> 00:04:58.560 align:middle line:84% I think there's some others that have this same kind of sort 00:04:58.560 --> 00:04:59.700 align:middle line:90% of double effect. 00:04:59.700 --> 00:05:03.680 align:middle line:84% At least that's what was aimed at in the poems. 00:05:03.680 --> 00:05:05.000 align:middle line:90%