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Aonghus FJR Collins, 2001-2005

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    #242
    Raphael
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    Meh. I browsed over his stuff, nothing particularily impressive tbh.


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    #243
    It wasn't me!
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    He's cool, but I prefer Bishop. Kavanagh's not great. Plath rocks.


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    #244
    Raphael
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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
    Aoibheann
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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
    LordCran
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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
    Undergod
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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
    Raphael
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    The love song of J. Alfred Prufrock is pretty streamofconsciousnessesque


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    #249
    Undergod
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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
    Raphael
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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. <3!


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    #251
    odhran
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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
    Raphael
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    I knew an odhran... Did you hang around with duddy by any chance?


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    #253
    Lantis
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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
    Raphael
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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
    smiley_knees
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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
    Raphael
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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
    lilmissprincess
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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
    TalkISCheap
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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
    TalkISCheap
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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... :D


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    #260
    odhran
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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
    Raphael
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    I have? It's quite probably, I was 14 back then.


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    #262
    LordCran
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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
    It wasn't me!
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    Meh, I prefer Mr. De La Rocha for anti-establishment poetry.


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    #264
    LordCran
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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
    Undergod
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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
    odhran
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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
    It wasn't me!
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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
    Dragon Master
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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
    Raphael
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    That would be Oisín De Conduin


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    #270
    lilmissprincess
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    Fourteen pages. Well done.


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    #271
    Raphael
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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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