ON LIGHT VERSE
INTERESTING LECTURE BY
MR. W. KAY
An interesting lecture on "Light Verso" was given by Mr. W. Kay at a meeting of the Hongkong University Arts association list sight in the presence of a largo gathering.
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duced by pools of recluse habits purposely boen gulity of the pun. such as Milton and Wordsworth, I suppose you all know what a pu although Wordsworth did write a few light pieces, and even the god-la. Some people pretend to lonthe like Milton descended from his puns and declare punning to be the Glympian heights (in hia under- lowest form of wit. But nofther graduate days, I admit) to write Shakespearo nor Charies Lamb nome witty lines on the death of
thought so, and some philologista drunken Cambridge carrior. - An have said before, Light Vorse is assert that no man has a compléte usually
the offspring of men and grasp of a language until he can women busily engaged in the affairs pun in it. Be that as it may, it of the world but with a zest for must be admitted that for the last telsured culture and an ear for
Iseventy or eighty years punning haa best light pletes have been thrown
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The following are some extractsds and rhythm. Much of our been more or less taboo in English on the whole favourable.
from Mr. Kay's address:
"Mast of you were at one time keen students of light verso, although you were unaware of the fact. I refer to your very young days when you sang and shouted your Marnary Rhymes: for these simple lays of infancy are the lightest of verse and conform to certain rules demanded by that type of writing, rules which I shall die- Inter. These rhymes with their regular beat, their lilt and their rhyme, are more easily re- membered than a simple prose paraphrase of the same would be, and little folk get as much fun re. peating them again and again as you do humming or whistling your
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off by doctors and lawyers in their Light Verse. Many of our light spare time, men who make no claim voraifiers in England and America to be poets. Their fancy and have not hesitated to use this play humour have seized upon Incidente on words and the greatest of all and situations fitted for poetic treatment, and their ingenuity and who have committed this crime la wit have turned them into things undoubtedly Thomas Hood."
of Venty and laughter. It has After douling with some of been said of great poets that they take the common ore of universal Thomas Hood's worke in light verso, thought and transmute it, by their the lecturer continued: genius, to fine gold: we might say tho samo of many of our best light versifiers, only
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"Another form of light verse very we would sub-popular with young wriiora stitute the word 'silver for gold, known as Parody. A Parody is an Frederick Locker, a very skilful imitation, usually humorous writer of Light Verso, has Inid down certain rules concerning this antirical, or some well-known poem. kind of composition. Here they To parody well is not so simple as favourite fox-trots and waltzes.
are, slightly abbreviated:
many young veralflórs think. J5% "Now it seems to me a great pity
far too many parodies, the correct "Light lyrical verso should bo
is missing: that this pleasure which the very young get from these meaningless short, elegant, refined and fanciful, atmosphere or aura
Heldom distinguished by The parodist must have a good car init musical rhymes is lost, or at any not
ato, not developed, in later years. chastened sentiment, and often and should know extremely well, inny be wrong, (and am willing to playful. The tone should not be not only the poem he is burlesque be corrected) when any that be-pitched high, and it should be
ing, but also others by the same Loan 1024 tween the ages of ten and seven-idiomatic, the rythm crisp and author. In English we have dozens HK, & Shai Bk. teen (roughly) almost everyone sparkling, the rhyme frequent and
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exhibit all expected to
these ed with the original poem. Then characteristics, but the qualities of many parodies are about events of brevity and buoyancy are essential, the time. The best parodista in
English
Coleridge, are Hogg, Calverley, A. C. Hilton, Swinburne and Sir Owen Seaman."
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"If we are to draw a comparison betweon light and serious verse, we might liken the graver poems to what one finds in a well-ordered, "It should also have an air of carefully tended garden where are being spontaneous: Indeed, to write to be seen rare and gorgeous it well, it is a difficult achievement blooms, the result of gonerat: and no one has succeeded in it of great horticultural skill, and without possessing a certain gift light verse to what one finds in the of irony, which is a rarer quality by-paths of the garden, or out on that humour or even wit. The In concluding the lecturer.said: the moors and heaths-wild flowers poem may be gay and gallant, it"Light verse not only in the rend Boots sweet blossoms, bright berries etc. may be playfully malicious or ing but also in the making should Impl. Chem Ind. One critic na likened the serious tenderly ironical, it may display interest you scholars. Many of you impl. Chem Ind. stuff to a magnificent and. awe-lively, banter and
Def. 10/- sh.... may be will say you'd like to try but can-Impl. Tobacco.. inspiring thunder-storm and the satirically facetious, but it must not find a subject. My advice to Woolworths lighter trifles to a firework display, never be heavy.”
you is to begin by translating into Internat. Nicket while another uses majestic oil-
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black-and-white Mr. Kay then gave an example of English
favourite Chinese poems. There Pinehin Johnson sketches and cartoons in his com- Mr. Locker's own light verse."
you have an exceedingly rich mine parison. But Bone of there parallels are one hundred per cent
of imagery and thought exquisitely Turner & Newall expressed in your own language: correct.
and what better mental exercise could you gel than trying to give us these beauties in dainty English
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The Use of the Pun. Continuing Mr. Kay said: "An- Precedure of Light Verse.
other licence allowed the jocular bard but absolutely delarred in “Light verse has rarely been pro-serious verse is what I have just linea."
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