Frets
Childe Harold
Notes: the line, "Childe Harold to the Dark Tower came" is from Shakespeare, and lifted for the conceit of an entire poem by Robert Browning; likely lifted by Tolkien for his entire trilogy-a certainty for Stephen King!...I dunno...oh!...game on...on the radio...American League at National League in Colorado Coors Field...AL 1-0, top of third...Ohtani batted lead off, grounded out, and pitched first inning, 123...oh!...he's still in the batting order...cool...they adjusted the rules to make this possible...Frets...thought is to dust off my, what to call them: things I consider while writing poems..."Childe Harold" and "Dark Tower" have the same beats...boom ba boom..."Harold to the" has the usual da dah da dah...iambs...and, and then there is "came"...this is Yoda from Starwars talk, flipping word order for an antique effect...Childe Harold came to the Dark Tower is like 'eh"...Ohtani made out, likely done...and Vlade Jr. wapped a home run!...AL 2-0...Judge grounds out...to bottom of third..."to the Dark Tower came", is like perfect...no other word, synonym, replaces came...a Childe was like an apprentice Knight...bbk...yep...but comes is another poem!...Childe Harold to the Dark Tower Comes...lol...I dunno...Edgar sings the line in King Lear...bbk...
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In an old Scottish ballad, a son of King Arthur. His sister, Burd Ellen, is carried away by the fairies to the castle of the king of Elfland. Aided by the instructions of Merlin, Childe Roland makes his way into the castle and rescues his sister.Child Rowland to the dark tower came,His word was still ‘Fie, foh, and fum,I smell the blood of a British man.’(Shakespeare, King Lear, iii. iv) Halliwell (Nursery Rhymes) thinks that Shakespeare is here quoting from two different compositions, the first line from a ballad on Roland, the second and third from the story of Jack the Giant‐killer.
Subjects: Literature
https://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/oi/authority.20110803095607611
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welp, there's the story...Childe Roland, nicknamed Jack, goes to the Giant's castle to rescue his Sister!...hmmph...fie fi fo fum...fum fo fi fie...high high low low...low low high high..."Childe Harold" like in the back of one's throat..."Dark Tower" with the "tah", tongue to teeth...'to the' thereabout too...end of four...to top of fifth...maybe they were Kittens...Kittens got away, ran up the beanstalk, and Jack tasked with getting them back!...hereabout, Feral Wild Mama Cat had four Kittens under the House...at night they sneak in through the domestic's door, and one by one the Giant has captured them!...lol...true story...rescue captures...three so far...two shipped to family in Bakersfield for rearing, domesticating!...one still in Giant's care, one still wild, in the dark sandy cobwebby underhouse with Mama cat...King would have Mama cat task her last Kitten...Maya, my dog, is flummoxed by the heat...me too...AL 4-0...roll out for a snack...bbk with game report...AL 5-2...Walsh made a game saving catch in left field...put a halo over this one!
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