![]() We will cover the kind of girls you’ll meet, the challenges to expect, and the success rate you could have (if only you followed our tips). Since so many people ask, in this China Love Cupid review we are looking at how effective it really is. If you want some vacation romance, it’s best to stick to China Love Cupid. ![]() She came to this bar, hoping to drown the pain. Your girl used to help out but she just lost her job. Apparently, her family is struggling financially because of her sick sister. You strike up a conversation and before you know it, you’ve fallen for her. As you’re sipping your cocktail, a sweet, shy-looking girl comes over. The plane lands in Beijing, it’s all good fun and good negotiations. He is the author of, among others, The Secret Library: A Book-Lovers’ Journey Through Curiosities of History and The Great War, The Waste Land and the Modernist Long Poem.You have a business trip to China. The author of this article, Dr Oliver Tearle, is a literary critic and lecturer in English at Loughborough University. For a change of pace, see our review of a superb collection of hilariously bad poetry by the great and good. We also recommend The Oxford Book of English Verse – perhaps the best poetry anthology on the market (we offer our pick of the best poetry anthologies here). Surreal it may be touching it is.ĭiscover more classic poetry with these poems about hair, these short poems about death, and these seduction poems. That explains the poem’s title, if not its rather surreal setup. A remarkably tender but also eccentric poem from the American poet Richard Brautigan (1935-84), which posits a hypothetical case: if the speaker were a catfish in the bottom of a pond, and the poem’s addressee were to come along, he would love her (him?) and be her (his?) friend. Richard Brautigan, ‘ Your Catfish Friend’. The jaunty and slightly tongue-in-cheek rhyme of ‘exquisite’ with ‘visit’ nicely captures the joyousness of the thing Smith is describing. A nice short quatrain from one of the twentieth century’s most brilliantly eccentric poets, ‘The Pleasures of Friendship’ celebrates spending time with friends – time which soon flies by. Stevie Smith, ‘ The Pleasures of Friendship’. Frost himself was good friends with another leading poet, Edward Thomas (1878-1917). ![]() Frost’s poem is a reminder that we are social beings and that friendship and conversation are the bread and butter of our daily lives as much as honest toil. Told in Frost’s trademark direct and clear style, ‘A Time to Talk’ is a short poem about finding time for friends, to catch up with them and talk to them even when there is work to do. A number of composers have set Housman’s poems to music over the years listen to a musical rendition of this poem here. It’s never too late for friendship or to be there for someone in need (following on from the Dickinson poem above). Drawing on the familiar proverb ‘better late than never’, the poem is about love and friendship coming late in life to someone who has passed most of his life deprived of both. This poem is from Housman’s first collection, A Shropshire Lad (1896), the volume that remains his most famous. Housman, ‘ You smile upon your friend to-day’. What if a loved one who needed your friendship and support spent their dying hours without your help and comfort? This is the situation Dickinson considers in this poem about the importance of ‘being there’ as a friend.Ī. David Sylvian, erstwhile lead singer of the pop group Japan, has set this poem to music, and it lends itself to song with its use of repetition and its trademark Dickinsonian quatrain structure, echoing the ballad form (although here, unusually for Dickinson, the even lines have four rather than three feet).
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