inversions in poetry

[Caleb Murdock]

I would love to see a single example to back up this claim. i could provide 100 that show the opposite on this forum alone but if you could just provide a single example of inversion used effectively in the last 100 years i would love to read it.

Well, before I refer you to the stanzas from my poem Youth again, I think we need to establish whether it is an inversion to put an adjective after a noun. It's correct to put adverbs after verbs, but I think (though I may be wrong) that it is generally considered incorrect to put an adjective after a noun.

In the stanzas I quoted above, I wrote "Of youth's trail vanishing". The person who critiqued it suggested that I make that "Of youth's vanishing trail". But again, perhaps that isn't the best example. I'm tempted to post a poem I recently finished in which I invert a verb and subject, a poem which contains those lines above that Billy called "gibberish". (They aren't gibberish when you read the whole poem.) Of course, you may not want to have to read a poem of mine in order to get my point, and you might disagree anyway. I'll look for such an instance in a famous poem and post it here.

It all comes down to personal preference. Your preference doesn't prove your point, and my preference doesn't prove my point.

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What the hell. I went ahead and posted my poem My Heat in the Mild Critique section. There is a subject/verb inversion in the third stanza.