Had You Not Outline

Outline

Slide 1: Title Slide

COURTNEY Slide 2: Poem, Had You Not
Had you not hinted
It would be appropriate
For me to kiss you
Beneath the silver moon,
I may have avoided you
And Prufrocked myself through life—
Singing nothing but an etherized song.

Had you not suggested
Spring was a good season
For us to make love,
I might have buried myself
In a library trying to find why
Henry James’ delicate wound
Kept him on the sidelines,
While the match played out
Before his fearful eyes.

Had you not intimated
I had but precious time—
And so little of that—
Until you would leave
And extinguish the sun,
I could have held
Lady Macbeth by the waist
And waltzed her off
To the province of hell.

Had you not proposed
This compact between us,
By which we choose our words
To write the only story
Worth telling at all,
I would have closed my Bible
And nailed myself to the wall.

KAYLA Slide 3: Bart Edelman was born in Paterson, New Jersey, in 1951 and spent his childhood in Teaneck. He moved to California after earning both his undergraduate and graduate degrees from Hofstra University in New York. Crossing the Hackensack was Edelman's first book of poetry, and was published in 1993. Edelman's second book, ‘Under Damaris Dress’ was published in 1996. The Alphabet of Love, Edelman's third collection, was published in 1999. His fourth was The Gentle Man, published in 2001. His fifth book is The Lost Mojito, published in 2005. His most recent is The Geographer’s Wife published in 2012. His poetry has appeared in numerous newspapers and literary journals. He currently lives in Pasadena and is an English professor at Glendale College.
-All information was found at bartedeman.com/bio.

COURTNEY Slide 4:
1st Stanza- Sounds like a love story, couple’s first kiss, new love starting, someone finally making the first move and if not, would have stayed affray.

2nd Stanza- Relationship blossoms into making love, again hinted by the same person, showing respect into waiting until she was ready. Edelman is known for writing about love. According to Cheri Davis Langdell, (fellow poetry author) "Bart Edelman's poetry is true art. These beautiful, knowing poems are about loneliness, love and isolation, poems which have at their center a stillness as well as a strong presence."

KAYLA

3rd Stanza-In the third stanza he is saying she told him he had little time to live with her in his life. He says “and extinguish the sun” meaning that once she is gone the color and brightness of his days will also disappear. I am not sure what he means by “Icould have held Lady Mcbeth by the waist, and waltzed her off to the province of hell.’ But if I had to make a guess this means if he could have her for longer than she is saying he can, he would have spent the most time possible with her. I think maybe they are doing something wrong because of the line that says he would dance with her to the province of hell.

4th Stanza- This stanza talks about a compact the two made together; I think this is talking about marriage or just a pact made to be together. “by which we choose our words to write” I think may possibly be talking about vows, I think he continues to say that he was a part of the church. Or it is also possible that they were having an affair.

Slide 5: VIDEO
We chose the song “You’re beautiful” by James Blunt. We think this poem correlates with this song because the man in the poem says he would have continued his life, if they hadn’t met, with anguish, and in this song James is saying how upset he is about living his life without the woman he sees on the crowded street. Also in the song he’s talking about time and how he didn’t have much with the woman but wished there was more.

Works Cited

Edelman, Bart . "Biography" Bart Edelman. 2013. 30 Jan. 2013 <http://bartedelman.com/bio.htm>.

Edelman, Bart . "Biography" Glendale Community College. 2013. 30 Jan. 2013 <http://english.glendale.cc.ca.us/Edelman.html>.