"Looking down on empty streets, all she can see Are the dreams all made solid Are the dreams all made real
"All of the buildings, all of those cars Were once just a dream In somebodys head" --Peter Gabriel, "Mercy Street"
But the song is a memorial to Anne Sexton, who suicided.
It does strike me that after Kipling, this has been the domain of science fiction. But then, I don't know much modern poetry, and the joy in human works has gone out of culture, since so much has come a-cropper. But they, so much post-1950 architecture and large-scale engineering is so ugly; a hard and ambiguous subject for verse.
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Date: 2007-11-11 09:36 pm (UTC)Are the dreams all made solid
Are the dreams all made real
"All of the buildings, all of those cars
Were once just a dream
In somebodys head"
--Peter Gabriel, "Mercy Street"
But the song is a memorial to Anne Sexton, who suicided.
It does strike me that after Kipling, this has been the domain of science fiction. But then, I don't know much modern poetry, and the joy in human works has gone out of culture, since so much has come a-cropper. But they, so much post-1950 architecture and large-scale engineering is so ugly; a hard and ambiguous subject for verse.