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Times-Advocqte, June 29,1973
Odds 'n Ends
The power of poetry
||By ELAINE TOWNSHEND
A lady gave me a book of
poetry compiled by a psy
chiatrist. Could she be try
ing to tell me something?
Dr. Smiley Blanton con
tended we should not un
derestimate the healing
power of poetry, for there is
a poem to fit” every mood
and situation of life. He
pointed out that poets,
prophets and playwrights
gave insights into human
emotions long before Freud
and the advent of modern
psychiatry. In the age when
flogging was the accepted
treatment for emotionally
disturbed persons,
Shakespeare asked. ‘’Can’st
thou not minister to a mind
diseased?”
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Blanton often
recommended certain
poems for his patients to
read. The poetry, of course,
couldn’t cure their neurosis
or solve their problems, but
it could help to make their
problems easier to bear. The
patients realized their
feelings were not unique;
other people had gone
through similar experiences
and understood how they
felt. Poetry gave strength
and comfort and sometimes
revived a sense of humour,
which Dr. Blanton main
tained was essential in life.
He listed examples of
poems that dealt with con
ditions of everyday living,
such as insomnia. When you
are lying awake at night,
read William Wordsworth’s
sonnet “To Sleep’’:
“A flock of sheep that
leisurely pass by,
One after one; the sound of
rain, and bees
Murmuring; the fall of
rivers, winds and seas,
Smooth fields, white sheets
of water, and pure sky;
I have thought of all by
turns, and yet do lie
Sleepless! And soon the
small birds’ melodies
Must hear, first uttered
from my orchard trees;
And the first cuckoo’s
melancholy cry.
Even thus last night, and
two nights more, I lay
And could not win thee,
Sleep! by any stealth:
So do not let me wear
tonight away:
. Without Thee what is all the
morning’s wealth?
Come, blessed barrier
between day and day,
Dear mother of fresh
thoughts and joyous
health!’’
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I tried reading the above,
and it beats counting sheep
or watching the late, late,
late show. It’s also the best
advice I’ve heard since
someone suggested I apply
for a job as a night
watchman.
When I am angry, I
usually slam doors, but for
the sake of the neighbours,
maybe I’ll try reading.
Unfortunately many of us
vent our anger and
frustration on innocent
people.This practice
reminded Dr. Blanton of the
woggly bird in one of
Edward Lear’s anthologies:
“The woggly bird sat on the
whango tree
Nooking the rinkum corn,
And graper and graper,
alas! grew he,
And cursed the day he was
born.
His elute was clum and his
voice was rum
And curiously sang he,
‘Oh would I’d been rammed
and eternally clammed
Ere I perched on this
whango tree.’
Now the whango tree had a
bubbly thorn,
As sharp as a nootie’s bill,
And it stuck in the woggly
bird’s umptim lorn
And weepadge, the smart
did thrill,
He fumbled and cursed, but
that wasn’t the worst,
For he couldn’t at all get
free,
And he cried, ‘I am gammed
and injustibly nammed
On the luggardly whango
tree!’
And there he sits still, with
no worm in his bill,
And no guggledom in his
nest;
He is hungry and bare; and
gobliddred with care,
And his grabbles give him no
rest;
He is weary and sore and his
tugmot is blore
And nothing to nob has he,
As he chirps, ‘I am
blammed and corruptibly
jammed
In the guggerdom whango
tree.’’’
Considering anger in a
more serious vein, John
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Greenleaf Whittier wrote
“Forgiveness”:
“My heart was heavy, for its
trust had been
Abused, its kindness
answered with foul
wrong;
So, turning gloomily from
my fellowmen,
One summer Sabbath day I
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The green mounds of the
village burial-place;
Where, pondering how all
human love and hate
Find one sad level; and how,
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Wronged and wrongdoer,
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And cold hands folded over a
still heart,
Pass the green threshold of
our common grave,
Whither all footsteps tend,
whence none depart.
Awed for myself, and
pitying my race,
Our common sorrow, like a
mighty wave,
Swept all my pride away,
and trembling I forgave! ”
Combatting anxiety is the
theme of Sir Henry Wotton’s
“Character Of A Happy
Life”:
“How happy is he born and
taught
That serveth not another’s
will;
Whose armor is his honest
thought,
And simple truth his utmost
skill;
Whose passions not his
masters are,
Whose soul is still prepared
for death,
Not tied unto the world with
care
Of public fame or private
breath;
Who hath his life from
rumours freed,
Whose conscience is his
strong retreat;
Whose state can neither
flatterers feed,
Nor ruin make oppressors
great. . .
. . . This man is freed from
servile bands
Of hope to rise, or fear to
fall;
Lord of himself, though not
of lands;
And having nothing, yet hath
all.”
In “As You Like It,”
Shakespeare discusses
adversity:
“Sweet are uses of
adversity,
Which, like the toad, ugly
and venomous,
Wears yeti a precious jewel
in his head;
And this our life, exempt
from public haunt,
Finds tongues in trees,
books in the running
brooks,
Sermons in stones, and good
in everything.”
And Christina Rossetti
answers the questions of
many troubled persons in
her poem “Up-hill”:
“Does the road wind up-hill
all the way?
Yes, to the very end.
Will the day’s journey take
the whole long day?
From morn to night, my
friend.
But is there for the night a
resting-place?
A roof for when the slow
dark hours begin.
May not the darkness hide it
from my face?
You cannot miss that inn.
Shall I meet other wayfarers
at night?
Those who have gone before.
Then must I knock, or call
when just in sight?
They will not keep you
waiting at that door.
Shall I find comfort, travel
sore and weak?
Of labour you shall find the
sum.
Will there be beds for me
and all who seek?
Yea, beds for all who
come.”
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