Lyrical Homages/Influences/Steals
Posted: Fri Oct 30, 2009 7:59 pmI doubt anyone was as knocked that I realsied Fearnley's Drunken Boat came mostly from a Rimbaud poem. The whole thing's very similar, but here are a few lines that are almost dead on.
"If there is one water in Europe I want, it is the
Black cold pool where into the scented twilight
A child squatting full of sadness, launches
A boat as fragile as a butterfly in May."
And, I was re-reading the Pickering Manuscript by William Blake and in the poem 'William Bond' are the lines;
"And an Angel of Providence at his feet,
And an Angel of Providence at his head,
And in the midst a black, black cloud,
And in the midst the sick man on his bed."
Any other decent ones?
Pretty much the opening verse to Sickbed, innit?
Of course, we all know the Brendan Behan influences throughout the early stuff. The Poguetry page is a great way to waste an afternoon. 'Compliments pass when the quality meet' comes directly from Borstal Boy. Behan reused it in Confessions, actually, when the deaf couple argue in taps on the bar.
"If there is one water in Europe I want, it is the
Black cold pool where into the scented twilight
A child squatting full of sadness, launches
A boat as fragile as a butterfly in May."
And, I was re-reading the Pickering Manuscript by William Blake and in the poem 'William Bond' are the lines;
"And an Angel of Providence at his feet,
And an Angel of Providence at his head,
And in the midst a black, black cloud,
And in the midst the sick man on his bed."
Any other decent ones?
Pretty much the opening verse to Sickbed, innit?
Of course, we all know the Brendan Behan influences throughout the early stuff. The Poguetry page is a great way to waste an afternoon. 'Compliments pass when the quality meet' comes directly from Borstal Boy. Behan reused it in Confessions, actually, when the deaf couple argue in taps on the bar.
