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An Ode to Cynthia ... Please help me to get started ...
Category: Arts and Entertainment > Books and Literature Asked by: probonopublico-ga List Price: $2.00 |
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29 Oct 2003 12:37 PST
Expires: 28 Nov 2003 12:37 PST Question ID: 270865 |
Due to a desperately unfortunate piece of 'finger trouble', I have lost a highly valued comment on one of my questions. Please see 270673. Now, I want to write my masterpiece - An Ode to Cynthia - but I am having trouble getting started. Ideally, I want to submit the Ode for a Nobel Prize, as I've never won one yet. Please help |
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Re: An Ode to Cynthia ... Please help me to get started ...
Answered By: justaskscott-ga on 30 Oct 2003 04:55 PST Rated: |
These will be some of the headlines in tomorrow's international newspapers, after the announcement by the Nobel Prize Committee: "Ode to Bryan: PBP Awarded Nobel for Cynthia Poem" "First-Time Ode Writer Deserving Winner of First-Time Nobel Prize" "Bryan: Greatest Poet Since Byron?" And then, some time next year: "What Next for PBP?: Experts Say Bryan Likely to Get Peace Prize" :-) | |
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Aw, Gee, Justaskscott You really know how to make an old man very happy. And I love the way you have understated your suggestions. And, what's more, Cynthia is also organising the Nobel Prize thing. It just shows that fortune favours the deserving. Many thanks. Sorry that I can't give you the tip that you really deserve. (There is a limit, as you know, and I don't want you to become a victim of jealousy.) Bryan |
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Re: An Ode to Cynthia ... Please help me to get started ...
From: pinkfreud-ga on 29 Oct 2003 12:44 PST |
If you're writing a classical ode, the title of this webpage might be a good start: http://www.divanet.com/wynn/writing/pagan/hyacinthia.htm |
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Re: An Ode to Cynthia ... Please help me to get started ...
From: sublime1-ga on 29 Oct 2003 12:56 PST |
Bryan... I have no experience in writing odes, but I'll offer you an ode written by my brother (in 6th grade, if you can believe it), which he would recite using the voice and introductory style of Henry Gibson: "Ode to an olive...by Henry Gibson" "Oh olive, how I love you when martinis you are made to spruce up. The only thing that I dislike is that you suck the juice up." sublime1-ga |
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Re: An Ode to Cynthia ... Please help me to get started ...
From: justaskscott-ga on 29 Oct 2003 15:17 PST |
If you're not opposed to plagiarism of Tudor-Stuart era poetry: "Ode to Cynthia", by Ben Jonson Mike Oldfield University [?!] [at which I believe the graduation ceremony is set to Tubular Bells rather than Pomp and Circumstance] http://www.ommadawn.dk/mou/inc/cynthia.html |
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Re: An Ode to Cynthia ... Please help me to get started ...
From: cynthia-ga on 29 Oct 2003 17:04 PST |
Hi Bryan! Oh My... I'm speechless. I reconstructed my Comment for you at the other question, but something tells me you are having fun... not as a result of my failure to repost it in the Comment section. You made my day... ~~Cynthia |
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Re: An Ode to Cynthia ... Please help me to get started ...
From: pafalafa-ga on 29 Oct 2003 17:11 PST |
How about... I think that I shall never see A GAR as lovely as Cynthee- a |
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Re: An Ode to Cynthia ... Please help me to get started ...
From: sublime1-ga on 29 Oct 2003 21:27 PST |
paf... That was truly ode-ious... : ) |
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Re: An Ode to Cynthia ... Please help me to get started ...
From: probonopublico-ga on 29 Oct 2003 22:27 PST |
Here it is ... the product of a sleepless night. Now, how do I get it front of the Nobel guys? Ode to Cynthia (c)2003 Probonopublico QUEEN and huntress, chaste and fair, Now the sun is laid to sleep, Seated in thy silver chair, State in wonted manner keep: Hesperus entreats thy light, Goddess excellently bright. Earth, let not thy envious shade Dare itself to interpose; Cynthia's shining orb was made Heaven to clear when day did close: Bless us then with wishèd sight, Goddess excellently bright. Lay thy bow of pearl apart, And thy crystal-shining quiver; Give unto the flying hart Space to breathe, how short soever: Thou that mak'st a day of night Goddess excellently bright. |
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Re: An Ode to Cynthia ... Please help me to get started ...
From: justaskscott-ga on 29 Oct 2003 22:58 PST |
Hey, doesn't this mean that I get the two dollars? (I promise to donate the proceeds to the Ben Jonson Appreciation Society, if there is such a thing.) Two dollars is a fair trade for a Nobel Prize, if you ask me. |
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Re: An Ode to Cynthia ... Please help me to get started ...
From: probonopublico-ga on 30 Oct 2003 00:19 PST |
Hi, Justaskscott Sorry, I don't know what you are talking about ... But, if you wish to post an answer, please do so. But WHATEVER YOU DO please do not disclose our little secret. Many thanks Bryan |
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Re: An Ode to Cynthia ... Please help me to get started ...
From: cynthia-ga on 30 Oct 2003 01:15 PST |
Worthy of a Nobel Prize! I'll get right on with the nomination... Nominations http://www.nobel.se/help/faq/nominations.html Darn... seems one must wait till they receive an invitation to nominate someone. Hmmm... There must be a way... *wink* ~~Cynthia |
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