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- 06 May 2016, 11:57
- Forum: Writer's Block - Where The Poets Hang
- Topic: The Potato Eaters (1885)
- Replies: 12
- Views: 24637
Re: The Potato Eaters (1885)
British English speakers, especially mother tongue, can be lazy; I am one. We know the form, but we hardly ever know why, we don't look up the rules. It is only when we are questioned about our grammar that we bother to look up, as it i in this case. Michael pointed out an error from an American poi...
- 06 May 2016, 02:18
- Forum: Writer's Block - Where The Poets Hang
- Topic: IBPC April 2016 - Congratulations Billy for 1st place.
- Replies: 3
- Views: 9232
IBPC April 2016 - Congratulations Billy for 1st place.
Congratulations Billy for 1st place.
- 06 May 2016, 01:30
- Forum: Writer's Block - Where The Poets Hang
- Topic: The Potato Eaters (1885)
- Replies: 12
- Views: 24637
Re: The Potato Eaters (1885)
The British view… However, the verb form used can depend on the emphasis of the sentence, and accepted regional usage, so no wonder many people are confused. In British English it’s absolutely fine to treat most collective nouns as either singular or plural – you can say my husband’s family is very...
- 06 May 2016, 01:10
- Forum: Writer's Block - Where The Poets Hang
- Topic: The Potato Eaters (1885)
- Replies: 12
- Views: 24637
Re: The Potato Eaters (1885)
UHM it is a group, hence singular.
I pose
he poses
they pose
we pose
the family pose
The family are posing
they are posing
we are posing
I pose
he poses
they pose
we pose
the family pose
The family are posing
they are posing
we are posing
- 04 May 2016, 16:03
- Forum: Writer's Block Palaver
- Topic: Upcoming May IBPC 2016:
- Replies: 7
- Views: 17180
Re: Upcoming May IBPC 2016:
Michael, I just noticed you place the date, I really like that and will add to my final version, (1885), it sets the date for the reader and shows it not just a modern narrative. Unless there is a poetry convention that ekphrastics must have an introduction that points to the actual reference I woul...
- 04 May 2016, 02:18
- Forum: Writer's Block Palaver
- Topic: Upcoming May IBPC 2016:
- Replies: 7
- Views: 17180
Re: Upcoming May IBPC 2016:
1/Name - Ieuan ap Hywel 2/e-mail address - IeuanapHywel@aol.com 3/The poem: 'Potato Eaters' is my original work 4/it is unpublished 5/I am not representing in the current IBPC 6/poem is as follows: The Potato Eaters Five figures, two men and three females from three generations. Of the three females...
- 04 May 2016, 01:43
- Forum: Writer's Block - Where The Poets Hang
- Topic: The Potato Eaters (1885)
- Replies: 12
- Views: 24637
Re: The Potato Eaters
Yes, I am very pleased to be nominate by you and Siva,
- 26 Apr 2016, 21:50
- Forum: Writer's Block - Where The Poets Hang
- Topic: Congrats Siva IBPC Honorable Mention
- Replies: 6
- Views: 14152
Re: Congrats Siva IBPC Honorable Mention
Congratulations Siva for honourable mention in IBPC March 2016, well done.
regards
Frank
regards
Frank
- 09 Apr 2016, 03:02
- Forum: Writer's Block - Where The Poets Hang
- Topic: The Potato Eaters (1885)
- Replies: 12
- Views: 24637
The Potato Eaters (1885)
The Potato Eaters (1885) Five figures, from three generations. Of the three females a girl sits, her back towards the artist. Two small windows display the darkness of evening. Eight rafters run from front to back. The ouders sit on high-backed chairs with raffia woven seats. Oma schenkt koffie in,...
- 09 Apr 2016, 00:32
- Forum: Writer's Block - Where The Poets Hang
- Topic: Separatedness - moved farther up
- Replies: 0
- Views: 5971
Separatedness - moved farther up
Iris's hand guided me back to the page of her book
- 23 Mar 2016, 15:43
- Forum: Writer's Block - Where The Poets Hang
- Topic: Congrats Billy IBPC Honorable Mention
- Replies: 2
- Views: 8110
Re: Congrats Billy IBPC Honorable Mention
Congratulations Billy, another mention, very well done. This is Frankly by the way. It must seem odd to you all that I keep changing names, but I seem to have great difficulty in signing in, once I forget a capital in my code even though I do the 'freleker' thing I can't get in. Is it a deliberate p...
- 07 Mar 2016, 18:11
- Forum: Writer's Block - Where The Poets Hang
- Topic: Rothko rewrite
- Replies: 3
- Views: 9861
Re: Rothko
Interesting name for a dog, and of course it refers to an artists, a modern artists who paints in fascinating colour. It is an educated man's poem, instructive, educating, and poems should do that, yes? It has so much details and tells us that a dogs has 220 million olfactory receptors in the nose w...
- 02 Mar 2016, 18:33
- Forum: Writer's Block - Where The Poets Hang
- Topic: Rode Dock Road
- Replies: 0
- Views: 5530
Rode Dock Road
Again I cycle the Dock Road as alarm rattles in its tin; despair - at the early call longing to stay in the warm, to dress hurriedly in the cold the house, asleep in the early morn. A blue black sky on the shiny road, I peddle past the workman's hospital, men dying to end their journey when mine sta...