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Subject: 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
Posted: 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
Answer  
Subject: Re: An Ode to Cynthia ... Please help me to get started ...
Answered By: justaskscott-ga on 30 Oct 2003 04:55 PST
Rated:5 out of 5 stars
 
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"

:-)

Clarification of Answer by justaskscott-ga on 30 Oct 2003 04:57 PST
If you feel that more praise and honor should be forthcoming, please
let me know and I will be happy to expand upon my answer.

Request for Answer Clarification by probonopublico-ga on 30 Oct 2003 06:04 PST
Hi, Justaskscott

You've made a great start and for that I thank you but I believe that
you could have been very much more ambitious on my behalf ...

What about an Earldom? (Earl Probo of Nopublico, perhaps)

What about my becoming Poet Laureate?

What about a Sainthood? (But would I have to become a Catholic and
somewhat dead to qualify?)

What about a Statue in the Copster Park, Oldham?

But, really, I am far too modest to put words into your mouth.

Kindest regards

Bryan

Clarification of Answer by justaskscott-ga on 30 Oct 2003 07:03 PST
An excerpt from a future hagiography: "Then did Probo, Earl of
Nopublico, Patron Saint of Odes, Poet Laureate Plenipotentiary, view
the statue erected unto him in the Copster Park, Oldham, and declare
that it was good."
probonopublico-ga rated this answer:5 out of 5 stars and gave an additional tip of: $2.00
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

Comments  
Subject: 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
Subject: 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
Subject: 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
Subject: 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
Subject: 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
Subject: 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...  : )
Subject: 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.
Subject: 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.
Subject: 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
Subject: 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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