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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jack7" data-source="post: 4790539" data-attributes="member: 54707">Hell, down to Tennyson and TH White, even.One thing I really miss in modern fantasy is poetry.Good epic, heroic, mysterious, even romantic poetry.Men of Harlech, march to glory,Victory is hov'ring o'er ye,Bright-eyed freedom stands before ye,Hear ye not her call?At your sloth she seems to wonder;Rend the sluggish bonds asunder,Let the war-cry's deaf'ning thunderEvery foe appall.Echoes loudly waking,Hill and valley shaking;'Till the sound spreads wide around,The Saxon's courage breaking;Your foes on every side assailing,Forward press with heart unfailing,'Till invaders learn with quailing,Cambria ne'er can yield!Thou, who noble Cambria wrongest,Know that freedom's cause is strongest,Freedom's courage lasts the longest,Ending but with death!Freedom countless hosts can scatter,Freedom stoutest mail can shatter,Freedom thickest walls can batter,Fate is in her breath.See, they now are flying!Dead are heap'd with dying!Over might hath triumph'd right,Our land to foes denying;Upon their soil we never sought them,Love of conquest hither brought them,But this lesson we have taught them,"Cambria ne'er can yield!"Course I miss good poetry period.Short of lyrification there doesn't seem to be all that many folks putting out any.EDIT: That reminds me of a funny old story Nellisir. (It was funny to me anyways) Back in my senior year in high school my English teacher (I was in what way back then we called AP English) told us all that we could do our term paper on any English authors we wished. I decided I was gonna do a comparative analysis between the works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson and JRR Tolkien. Well the teacher came around to everyone and we had to say out loud what we would do. So I told her my chosen subject and she said I could do Tennyson, but not Tolkien. I asked why not. So she said Tennyson was a great English author and poet (I thought he was pretty good too) and Tolkien was just a "fantasy children's scribbler of no real talent." I was not to watse my time on him.I told her that was for me to decide, and prove or disprove in my paper. She told me that if I compared the two she'd fail me. So I asked her in front of the class who would be writing the paper. She told me I would be. I told her damned right, and I'd do it my way. Screw the grade, it was my paper. This shocked a lot of my classmates, but one guy who I thought would never make waves about anything said out loud, "I'm with him. It's his paper."So I did it. I got a D- which was just enough to pass the class with a C, and it was the best D I ever got.I don't hold it against her, and didn't then, but she was wrong.Wrong as wrongy-wrong.</blockquote>

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