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Aonghus FJR Collins, 2001-2005

Raphael · 2005-08-17 14:56:05

First Post! W00t! Edit: Might as well make this post useful....

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#242 08-11-2005 09:04PM

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Meh. I browsed over his stuff, nothing particularily impressive tbh.

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#243 08-11-2005 09:48PM

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He's cool, but I prefer Bishop. Kavanagh's not great. Plath rocks.

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#244 08-11-2005 10:09PM

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Ugh, Plath. I can understand why she killed herself, her poems'd almost drive me to suicide.

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#245 08-11-2005 11:20PM

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It wasn't me! wrote:

He's cool, but I prefer Bishop. Kavanagh's not great. Plath rocks.

Aww, not those two. Hate them both.

Elm isnt so bad, I guess.

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#246 09-11-2005 03:25PM

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And what of Robert Frost? Or, to be a lot more recent, Neil Hannon? He's from Derry, and he's great. For more: www.thedivinecomedy.com.

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#247 09-11-2005 04:19PM

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I'm pretty fond of T.S. Eliot, but poetry isn't really my thing. Prose and streamofconsciousness and assocciation prose are much more to my tastes.

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#248 09-11-2005 05:27PM

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The love song of J. Alfred Prufrock is pretty streamofconsciousnessesque

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#249 09-11-2005 06:22PM

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Is that Eliot? Some of his stuff is kinda like that, or anyway kindof like what I'm trying to describe, not necessarily the same thing as whatI'm actually saying.

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#250 09-11-2005 07:02PM

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Yes.

"Let us go now you and I,
While the evening is stretched out across the sky
Like a patient etherised upon a table"

"In the halls the women come and go
Speaking of Michelangelo"

It's a 3 page sequence of anticlimaxes. !

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#251 09-11-2005 07:13PM

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hey aonghus i think i knew you in '03..... although i don't really remember you looking like that. i did know cat for definite though!

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#252 09-11-2005 07:29PM

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I knew an odhran... Did you hang around with duddy by any chance?

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#253 09-11-2005 07:49PM

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Raphael wrote:

Ugh, Plath. I can understand why she killed herself, her poems'd almost drive me to suicide.

die

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#254 09-11-2005 07:55PM

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Hi Colin!

Oh, also, in case anyone wants a laugh at my expense:
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=108376

My newbie days *shudder*

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#255 09-11-2005 07:56PM

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Raphael wrote:

Meh. I browsed over his stuff, nothing particularily impressive tbh.

G likes The Flea! Mostly coz it's about sex...:rolleyes:

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#256 09-11-2005 08:37PM

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"If a flea bit us and our blood mixed that way there'd be nothing wrong, so let's bone"

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#257 09-11-2005 10:29PM

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Plath isn't that bad...our teacher seems to have an obsession for Heaney though..."A four foot box, a foot for every year"....that still kinda freaks me...

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#258 09-11-2005 10:39PM

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"lovers watch thier backs, while hacks, in macs, take snaps, through telephoto lenses, chase mercedes benzes, throught the night..."

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#259 09-11-2005 10:41PM

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My English teacher said that I write like Bishop... Neil Hannon is a living legend...

WH Auden people!!! Funeral for A Tyrant!!

Is maith liom poetry...

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#260 10-11-2005 05:26PM

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yep that's me! is it just my imagination or have you changed a lot? as for poetry, i'm a fan of plath and eliot and can't stand heaney or kavanagh. or boland. or wordsworth. in fact i pretty much hated everything on the leaving cert. course except for eliot (plath wasn't on in '05).

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#261 10-11-2005 06:48PM

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I have? It's quite probably, I was 14 back then.

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#262 10-11-2005 06:51PM

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TalkISCheap wrote:

Neil Hannon is a living legend...

Yes. Yes he most definitely is. Good taste you have there. I mean:
"Who cares where national borders lie,
Who cares whose laws you're governed by,
Who cares what name you call a town,
Who'll care when you're 6 feet beneath the ground?"
That one's about the conflict in Northern Ireland, and is called Sunrise.
Then there's this. It's called Middle Class Heroes, and it's about modern living:
"I see unspeakable vulgarity
Institutionalised mediocrity
Infinite tragedy
Rise up little souls join the doomed army
Fight the good fight wage the unwinnable war:
Elegance against ignorance!
Difference against indifference!
Wit against ****!"
I really just like that for the words "institutionalised mediocrity". Brilliant

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#263 10-11-2005 08:13PM

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Meh, I prefer Mr. De La Rocha for anti-establishment poetry.

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#264 16-11-2005 03:16PM

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I advise all people to buy at least one Divine Comedy album, to discover how brilliant Mr. Hannon is. Buy Casanova, or Fin de Siecle if you can't find Casanova.

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#265 16-11-2005 08:39PM

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It wasn't me! wrote:

Meh, I prefer Mr. De La Rocha for anti-establishment poetry.

Mr. Biafra occupies that place in my heart.

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#266 16-11-2005 09:07PM

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i really wouldn not have recognised you.... that said, it was over 2 years ago, so i might just be remembering you incorrectly

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#267 16-11-2005 11:11PM

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Undergod wrote:

Mr. Biafra occupies that place in my heart.

Mine too, but De La Rocha's not half bad.

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#268 17-11-2005 04:03PM

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OK, about that pic at the beginning of the thread, if I didn't know any better, I'd swear that the person who's butting into the picture at the left is my brother.

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#269 17-11-2005 05:49PM

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That would be Oisín De Conduin

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#270 17-11-2005 10:03PM

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Fourteen pages. Well done.

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#271 18-11-2005 04:52PM

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Raphael wrote:

Oh, also, in case anyone wants a laugh at my expense:
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=108376

Continuing in the vein of the above:

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=194780

My prison thread

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