04-24-2013, 05:34 AM
hello.
unfortunately, whatever the metaphorical purpose or merit of this poem (i won't comment on that - but I will say that personally the sensation must be the idea's equal), I am slightly obsessed with poems (and anything else) about the ocean and the sea, the coast, etc. and as such found this more than a little disappointing. But, i did like the penultimate two lines 'New waves lick old stones / Encrusted in salt and sand'. Although, 'encrusted', er... I'm not sure. The language is bland, and really doesn't work.
But, again I have to say that it is possibly a personal thing on that score. The painter Francis Bacon had an obsession with Velasquez's Pope Innocent X, and I have the same thing with Dylan Thomas's 'Prologue', every other poem on this topic falls infinitely short.
unfortunately, whatever the metaphorical purpose or merit of this poem (i won't comment on that - but I will say that personally the sensation must be the idea's equal), I am slightly obsessed with poems (and anything else) about the ocean and the sea, the coast, etc. and as such found this more than a little disappointing. But, i did like the penultimate two lines 'New waves lick old stones / Encrusted in salt and sand'. Although, 'encrusted', er... I'm not sure. The language is bland, and really doesn't work.
But, again I have to say that it is possibly a personal thing on that score. The painter Francis Bacon had an obsession with Velasquez's Pope Innocent X, and I have the same thing with Dylan Thomas's 'Prologue', every other poem on this topic falls infinitely short.