[HN Gopher] Slow and steady, this poem will win your heart
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Slow and steady, this poem will win your heart
Author : mrholme
Score : 95 points
Date : 2025-06-13 05:12 UTC (17 hours ago)
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| neonate wrote:
| https://archive.md/MeXgh
| tptacek wrote:
| Why this poem in particular?
| mrholme wrote:
| It is not about the particular poem.. It was about the
| innovative ux aporoach of showing the poem stanza in context of
| the review.. but unfortunately the archive link strips this
| javascript feature. Try opening the page in private or
| alternate browser and If you are able to bypass the paywall,
| you can enjoy it.
| b0a04gl wrote:
| yeah i got what it was going for eventually, but tbh it was
| annoying at first. the scroll interaction wasn't clear and it
| broke the reading flow. felt more like a bug than a feature
| until i slowed down and figured it out. the context jumps
| were jarring too. didn't really help with continuity.
| goldfeld wrote:
| > until i slowed down
|
| Maybe the poem has a message
| mcphage wrote:
| > It is not about the particular poem.
|
| The particular poem itself is also quite nice.
| p3rls wrote:
| Some things are best left to a youtube production team.
| IncreasePosts wrote:
| A gift link was posted in this thread
| js2 wrote:
| Why not?
|
| > Because even as this poem is about what it's like to be a
| turtle, it's also about what it's like for a turtle to be a
| metaphor. And -- you could say therefore -- about how looking
| at (or as) a turtle illuminates what it's like to be a person,
| a woman, a poet.
| tptacek wrote:
| No good reason! I'm genuinely curious.
| js2 wrote:
| I thought it was answered by the article and the line I
| quoted. -\\_(tsu)_/-
| goldfeld wrote:
| I think maybe the reason is more arbitrary, as here look at
| this 90s author's symbolism, it's not just the old classics
| that are readable in-depth; contemporary style etc
| pvg wrote:
| Because it's turtles all the way down.
| defrost wrote:
| Somewhere _Beyond the Last Visible Dog_ .. https://delphine-
| angua.blogspot.com/2008/05/why-last-visible...
| svat wrote:
| The "More from A.O. Scott" at the bottom of the article links
| to:
|
| * "Life Isn't Perfect. But This Poem Might Be." March 21, 2025
| ("Aunt Jennifer's Tigers," by Adrienne Rich, 1951)
| https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/03/21/books/adrienn...
|
| * "I Would Follow This Poem to Hell and Back" Feb. 21, 2025
| ("my dreams, my works, must wait till after hell," from
| SELECTED POEMS, copyright (c)1963 by Gwendolyn Brooks)
| https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/02/21/books/gwendol...
|
| * "I Swear This Poem Didn't Make Me Cry" Jan. 23, 2025 ("From a
| Photograph," from NEW COLLECTED POEMS, copyright (c)1962 by
| George Oppen)
| https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/01/24/books/george-...
|
| * "Will You Fall in Love With This Poem? I Did." Dec. 18, 2024
| ("Romantic Poet," by Diane Seuss, 2024)
| https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/12/18/books/romanti...
|
| * "A Poem About Waiting, and Wishing You Had a Drink" Nov. 1,
| 2024 ("Party Politics," from "The Complete Poems," by Philip
| Larkin. originally 1984?)
| https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/11/01/books/philip-...
|
| * "A Poem That's Like a Perfect First Date" April 11, 2024
| ("Having a Coke With You," by Frank O'Hara, copyright (c) 1971)
| https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/04/11/books/frank-o...
|
| So it appears that this one is part of a series (previously
| called "Close Read" as in the last link above:
| https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/arts/close-
| read.htm...): every few weeks / months, A. O. Scott writes
| about some poem he's liked, in this format (all of them say
| "Produced by Aliza Aufrichtig, Alicia DeSantis, Nick Donofrio
| and Emily Eakin").
| js2 wrote:
| Gift link:
|
| https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/06/12/books/kay-rya...
| b0a04gl wrote:
| thankyou
| mcphage wrote:
| This works a lot better than the archive link--they have the
| same text, but the archive link loses all of the JS, and so the
| page doesn't make a lot of sense. Here you see it interactive,
| and--it's a fun way to read a poem :-)
| m3kw9 wrote:
| What's a gift link?
| b0a04gl wrote:
| >She lives below luck-level, never imagining some lottery will
| change her load of pottery to wings.
|
| nails the mindset where imagining change doesn't even happen.
| it's not about failing to win. it's about never thinking you're
| in the draw. that kind of mental floor sits deep.
| dash2 wrote:
| Aaaagh nooo, why have you converted this lovely poem into a
| feeble fable about a "winning mindset"?
| darepublic wrote:
| Patience, the sport of truly chastened things
| jihadjihad wrote:
| Poem itself is from 1994. If you'd like to read the text by
| itself, you can do so here:
|
| https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/50611/turtle-56d22dd3...
| dash2 wrote:
| Here is another poem about a weak, slow creature:
|
| https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/57076/the-armadillo
|
| There is a hint of war in there.
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