Plato And Aristotle. Poem by Roy Ballard
Plato And Aristotle.
‘I was told by Socrates'
said Plato once to Aristotle
‘Something called the axolotl
dwells beyond uncharted seas'
'Disbelieve it, my dear Plato
surely you've been at the bottle
down at the Old Daub and Wattle
where they sing of the potato
and the mythical tomato
soaring over the castrato
who can hit the highest C's'.
'Rub me down with spikenard'
said Plato since it scanned so well.
'Rub me down and rub me hard;
you're a thinker, I can tell'
With a sniffle and a snottle
Aristotle knocked the dottle
from the briar pipe he vented,
Smoking hadn't been invented
but the future is portented
by such mighty minds as these
who philosophise with ease.
I wished, reading it, your excellent english were not chinese to me.
They are so easy.An iamb is =the accent on every second syllable,2, trochaic =on every first of two syllables,3dactyl= the accent on every third syllable while anapaest the accent on every first out the three.
What I amired most is that they knew that the best wood for pipes would be the briar's wood.Then we have to admit the y were real philosophers.But Allow me, my dear to be proud that it was Aristotlr and not Plato who invented it.Plato could not reach the jeight of thought Ar. reached.
This poem has not been translated into any other language yet.
I would like to translate this poem
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4/27/2024 8:59:53 AM # 1.0.0.1119
i enjoy this because of the mention of Socrates but it is a great poem