O Belamo—

[purina]

In my head I sing the title of this thread to the tune of the Canadian national anthem every time I see it.

 

[pat grimshaw]

In my head I sing the title of this thread to the tune of the Canadian national anthem every time I see it.

O Purina! You are perceptive!

It is a rhetorical device. In fact it's an epistolatory device.

The thread title and the anthem you mention are in the form of a letter where we address our correspondent. When you sing that song you're addressing Canada, vowing your allegiance and promising to stand on guard for the homeland. I am, in turn, vigilantly standing here on the headlands for Belamo as he makes his way back and forth across the ethereal seas— and hopefully to grace us with his presence.

 

[pat grimshaw]

Hey don't forget Olivia... the feud goes on and the race to see who witnesses the other one kicking the bucket first.

Olivia witnessed Joan's departure some months ago and Olivia turned into a centenarian yesterday.



http://www.justusboys.com/forum/thr...page65?p=9230412&highlight=olivia#post9230412

 

[star-warrior]

Olivia witnessed Joan's departure some months ago and Olivia turned into a centenarian yesterday.



http://www.justusboys.com/forum/thr...page65?p=9230412&highlight=olivia#post9230412

 

[pat grimshaw]

O, Belamo. How I long for your return!

If you were here you could have answered all these questions in a trice.

Read it and weep.

DOVER BEACH by Matthew Arnold

Sophocles long ago…Heard it on the Ægean…

....naked shingles…

....clash by night.

… I understand the story but I don't quite get the point of the Spartan answer.…
Come and get what exactly?

Leonidas is turning the proposal around by exhorting the Persians to pry the riches and safe passage from his dead fingers.

Come, and take our weapons....

I reckon that too many scholars in the British Empire in Matthew Arnold's time would lard out their poems with as many Classical references as possible in order to merely please their tutors while losing the poem's intelligibility and potency.

 

[Cormac135]

Get a grip Pat

In other news, i've spotted him posting on another forum.

 

[pat grimshaw]

... i've spotted him posting on another forum.

I demand you send me a PM!

 

[Cormac135]

I demand you send me a PM!

Sadly Pat he's told me not to give out any info to people on here, especially you.

 

[rareboy]

Well served, sir. Well served.

 

[JerryPic]

 

[star-warrior]

I reckon that too many scholars in the British Empire in Matthew Arnold's time would lard out their poems with as many Classical references as possible in order to merely please their tutors while losing the poem's intelligibility and potency.

Brekekekex koax koax....

 

[pat grimshaw]

Sadly Pat he's told me not to give out any info to people on here, especially you.

That is Belamo being playful. Playing hard-to-get, being insouciant.

Playing at pococurante.


And Belamo, I know you're out there, waiting to return—


Who would care only for roses among the flowers?
Or to listen to no music save for Mozart’s?
Then why not discard all those yearning hours
With lame brains and fickle hearts?

Ah! Exquisite the tulips and the lilies!
The Schuberts and the Schumanns, how divine!
Then kiss me, kiss me quickly, Amaryllis!
And Belamo, mix your yearning with mine!

 

[Essex Boy]

 

[rareboy]

^ Move over. My turn.

 

[pat grimshaw]

Another luminous voice from Spain—

 

[pat grimshaw]

It's Belamo, wondering 'Should I or should I not return to those mindless minions at JUB?'.

 

[pat grimshaw]

O Belamo, both this painting and this photo remind me of you—

 

[Essex Boy]

Here's another one to get your juices flowing, Pat.

Hang on a mo, what's he doing with his hands? Looks like he's honing a chisel on a whetstone.

 

[rareboy]

Here's another one to get your juices flowing, Pat.

Hang on a mo, what's he doing with his hands? Looks like he's honing a chisel on a whetstone.

 

[pat grimshaw]

...he's honing a chisel on a whetstone.

You have to have a sharp chisel if you're going to beautify your dacha.