tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5010170380967519230.post5301287276476271264..comments2024-03-23T20:37:37.891-07:00Comments on First Known When Lost: "Be Assured, The Dragon Is Not Dead"Stephen Pentzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14882220887712092005noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5010170380967519230.post-35220914732202100732015-01-05T00:35:01.530-08:002015-01-05T00:35:01.530-08:00Frank: Thank you very much for visiting, and for y...Frank: Thank you very much for visiting, and for your thoughts about the poem. I appreciate your interpretation, which hadn't occurred to me before. It makes perfect sense, given Graves's experiences in the First World War.<br /><br />Thank you again.Stephen Pentzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14882220887712092005noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5010170380967519230.post-23919516653338505482015-01-02T03:41:48.748-08:002015-01-02T03:41:48.748-08:00I think the poem is about the prediction promoted ...I think the poem is about the prediction promoted at the time that World War I was the war to end all wars. World War II came back incredibly within a generation and with a vengeance, and with amazing parallels with the folly of the first.Franknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5010170380967519230.post-34835065728165239612012-05-14T20:57:16.293-07:002012-05-14T20:57:16.293-07:00Bovey Belle: thank you for the description of your...Bovey Belle: thank you for the description of your stay in Arisaig. It makes me want to return to that part of the world. There was something about western Scotland -- and particularly Skye -- that I have never gotten over: the ever-changing light and wide-openness perhaps. I have seen nothing like it before or since.<br /><br />Thanks again.Stephen Pentzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14882220887712092005noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5010170380967519230.post-7322715274499358112012-05-14T05:24:29.878-07:002012-05-14T05:24:29.878-07:00I recall camping right on the shore at Arisaig. T...I recall camping right on the shore at Arisaig. There was a little jetty where a round-the-islands ferry came chugging in - it had been a WWII landing craft in a former life.<br /><br />A huge lorry reversed onto the jetty - just inches either side - and all sorts of stuff was unloaded onto the ferry, including some of the mankiest "hay" I have ever seen. Island cattle are obviously not fussy . . .<br /><br />As the lorry drove away, the little ferry puffed into the sunset, where the islands floated like dreams, and the lights of an island castle shone golden.<br /><br />We will go back there . . . one day. My McDonald picture looks o have been painted somewhere close to Back of Keppoch, a couple of miles above Arisaig, where the beaches are white sand and the water incredibly clear - and incredibly cold, even in August.Bovey Bellehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13117332471600275100noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5010170380967519230.post-32128010100267994052012-05-10T22:14:25.780-07:002012-05-10T22:14:25.780-07:00Bovey Belle: thank you for stopping by again, and ...Bovey Belle: thank you for stopping by again, and for your thoughts.<br /><br />Graves's poems often take some time to sink in -- but they sound so nice that it is pleasant to think about them for a while.<br /><br />I was once in Arisaig as well (a long time ago). I wasn't aware that you could see Skye from there -- I was only there for an evening and (not surprisingly, since it was October) it was too gloomy and rainy to see anything in the distance!Stephen Pentzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14882220887712092005noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5010170380967519230.post-795958857819172822012-05-10T22:09:13.594-07:002012-05-10T22:09:13.594-07:00Fred: I haven't been paying enough attention t...Fred: I haven't been paying enough attention to keep track of who is accusing who of what. In any event, it seems that there is more than enough flip-flopping and expediency on both sides. And we've only just begun!<br /><br />As always, thanks for visiting, and for your thoughts.Stephen Pentzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14882220887712092005noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5010170380967519230.post-6252600494587956312012-05-10T10:40:41.404-07:002012-05-10T10:40:41.404-07:00Hmmm. Much pondering for me over the meaning of t...Hmmm. Much pondering for me over the meaning of that poem (of course, unknown to me hitherto!) It will take a few readings I think.<br /><br />However, the view of Arisaig, looking across to Skye IS familiar to me, as we have stayed nearby and I have a not dis-similar view of Skye by Gillian McDonald viewed just a couple of miles above Arisaig.Bovey Bellehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13117332471600275100noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5010170380967519230.post-9880407195959650812012-05-10T08:32:57.533-07:002012-05-10T08:32:57.533-07:00Stephen,
This is especially apt when one consider...Stephen,<br /><br />This is especially apt when one considers today's political climate where one political party has now made changing one's mind when new evidence is presented to be a moral weakness--flip-flopping.<br /><br />They claim that maintaining one's position in spite of contrary evidence is a virtue and admirable.Fredhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10233846613173866140noreply@blogger.com