The Silver Sage
Are you ready? Come on along and read some homespun poetry as well as a jot and tittle regarding distinguished poets and their works. Gael offers a positive balance of her own nostalgia notes and poetic meanderings with those of others. [Editor's note: Gael no longer contributes to Silver Planet, but we have made her archived blog entries available as a service to our readers.]
Leisure Passes, Time Passes, Life Passes
States. Born in London and educated at Christ’s College, Cambridge, he
grew up reading the classics and became a writer who penned inventive
scenes and clever sonnets about family life, sex, (certain shops in
Britain banned his more erotic verse) animals, and the indignities of
old age. He wrote with a satirical edge and great insight.
There is a mixed tone in his works, as observed in “Yorkshiremen in Pub Gardens,” an excerpt of which is shown below (from his book Selected Poems 1933-1988):
As they sit there, happily drinking,
their strokes, cancers and so forth are not in their minds.
Indeed, what earthly good would thinking
about the future (which is Death) do? Each summer finds
beer in their hands in big pint glasses.
And so their leisure passes. . . .
Reviewers called Ewart seriocomic, and however you choose to define his style, he wrote humorously and concisely on human behavior. Reading his works, one can believe that he struggled with human nature.
I think if he had lived into the age of cyberspace, he would have loved Silver Planet and its New View on Aging!
By Gael Stuart
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