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[Dishevelled Den]

Sometimes the opaqueness of the language adds to the continuing interest in / mystery of the words. But, as you say, only up to a point. I recall skipping some of the Plain Tales from the Hills due to the Tommies. (now you've reminded me of it, I'll have to get my copy down from the loft. Whilst there, i'll get HH Munro as well ...)
Others (eg Eliot) are opaque enough in parts without the added complication of dialect. Makes me wonder how much of what we get from poetry is our superimposition on it, rather than the author's original intent.

That's a very important point K and without doubt the fullness of heavily accented works is sadly lost at some stage to those of us who struggle with unfamiliar construction.

When the language is universally understood however, what joy it brings;


[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWVvlZdLTDA[/media]

[kevinminton]

Somewhere in my head I can hear Richard Burton reading KJV Ecclesiastes but see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qur7-MSnmck as a substitute. Perhaps stretching the definition of "poetry" now.

And I don't suppose Solomon (?) sounded like Burton at all ...

[Dishevelled Den]

Somewhere in my head I can hear Richard Burton reading KJV Ecclesiastes but see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qur7-MSnmck as a substitute. Perhaps stretching the definition of "poetry" now.

And I don't suppose Solomon (?) sounded like Burton at all ...

see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qur7-MSnmck as a substitute. Perhaps stretching the definition of "poetry" now.


Maybe in the purest sense but the power of these words lose nothing for it.  It indicates to me the insignifance of humankind in relation to our ability to really influence that which is around us and is particurlarly relevent to the nonsense witnessed in Copenhagen over the recent past.


And I don't suppose Solomon (?) sounded like Burton at all


  but what a voice all the same