Pioneer Valley Folklore Society Anthology
Amherst poet, scientist and philosopher, Ted Melnechuk, becomes animated when giving his assessment of the state of modern poetry. "It is mostly free verse, and free verse is not poetry, but prosody, or often simply pensées, or thoughts." Hence, Ted has gone to great lengths to give structure and rhyme to his approximately 5000 poems, verses and limericks.Hamlet's Last Soliloquy was originally intended to be included in a libretto that Ted undertook as part of a musical adaptation of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. It was inspired by Huck's encounter with a pair of vagabond actors known as the Duke and the Dauphin. The project was never completed, but Hamlet's Last Soliloquy, a clever amalgamation of quotes and lines from classic poems, survives. Challenge: How many of the original sources for the lines of Hamlet's Last Soliloquy can you name? (Answers are hidden on this page) | Hamlet's Last
Soliloquy © 1958-1998 by Ted Melnechuk Westward the
course of empire takes its way; Welcome the coming, speed the departing guest Of perilous seas in faery lands forlorn. Lo, the poor Indian! Whose untutored mind, Sweet are the uses of adversity;
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