Flying hogs of Plato? Good summertime piece even though reference is made to the groundhogs' hold on the media which temporarily yanked me back to February. I know the hummingbirds are twittering, hovering and divebombing around my feeders as I'm sure they are around other public radio listeners' homes. The metaphor between hummingsbirds and human beings is apt and showcased well by the poem. This would be a good piece to drop in before or after a piece by the Doyenne of Dirt perhaps? Easy to listen to summertime piece with an ending by Seals and Croft that made me smile. It fit in well with the overall tone of the piece. Entertaining.
Leave it to a poet to send me to the dictionary to look up a word like "lapsarian" which I will be hard-pressed to use in conversation. But that can be one of the joys of poetry. The poet and his subject are first introduced in an amusing, folksy style - pity the poor hummingbird pitted against the goundhog's media monopoly. And then the poet introduces the background of the poem - a backyard story of mythic proportions. The poem itself, simply read as often best suits poetry, reflects a world of conflict and greed. Who knew hummingbirds were so human? I only wish their unique sound could've been captured to end the piece instead of the cliche, or a best dated, musical choice.
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Produced by Dale Short
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Deborah Astley
Posted on June 09, 2005 at 12:13 PM | Permalink
Review of Lapsarian Hummingbirds
Flying hogs of Plato? Good summertime piece even though reference is made to the groundhogs' hold on the media which temporarily yanked me back to February. I know the hummingbirds are twittering, hovering and divebombing around my feeders as I'm sure they are around other public radio listeners' homes. The metaphor between hummingsbirds and human beings is apt and showcased well by the poem. This would be a good piece to drop in before or after a piece by the Doyenne of Dirt perhaps? Easy to listen to summertime piece with an ending by Seals and Croft that made me smile. It fit in well with the overall tone of the piece. Entertaining.
David Swatling
Posted on March 16, 2005 at 10:42 PM | Permalink
Review of Lapsarian Hummingbirds
Leave it to a poet to send me to the dictionary to look up a word like "lapsarian" which I will be hard-pressed to use in conversation. But that can be one of the joys of poetry. The poet and his subject are first introduced in an amusing, folksy style - pity the poor hummingbird pitted against the goundhog's media monopoly. And then the poet introduces the background of the poem - a backyard story of mythic proportions. The poem itself, simply read as often best suits poetry, reflects a world of conflict and greed. Who knew hummingbirds were so human? I only wish their unique sound could've been captured to end the piece instead of the cliche, or a best dated, musical choice.