Sunday, September 4, 2022

Enough Rope - Dorothy Parker - 222 / 365 of reading one short story every day.

Enough Rope


Enough Rope is Dorothy Parker’s first published work of poetry, released in 1926.

Dorothy Parker’s early works of poetry have been categorized as light verse. It combines playful rhyme and humor with themes that, for the most part, talk about love and loss, or rather more of loss than love. Consider, for example, the following:

In youth, it was a way I had

To do my best to please,

And change, with every passing lad,

To suit his theories.

But now I know the things I know,

And do the things I do;

And if you do not like me so,

To hell, my love, with you!



There are the occasional interludes of love, as in the poem Day-Dreams

If you and I were one, my dear,

A model life we’d lead.

We’d travel on, from year to year,

At no increase of speed.

Ah, clear to me the vision of

The things that we should do!

And so I think it best, my love,

To string along as two.


This sentiment is carried forward in another poem titled Love Song, that begins:

My own dear love, he is strong and bold

And he cares not what comes after.

His words ring sweet as chime of gold,

And his eyes are lit with laughter.

Adapted from thinktome blog



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