inversions in poetry

[milo]

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.

Try using examples from someone else's work as you are obviously not objective about your own yet.

How about this, find a published poem written in the last 100 years that uses inversion effectively.

I have never used preference to support my position and it doesn't come down to personal preference as to whether using an inversion adds to a poem. just tell me what you think the inversion adds and how it would be lost if you phrased it properly. i believe you had some promises of a new meaning.

"youth's vanishing trail" isn't an inversion, btw, it is normal English phrasing so the person who told you that was just incorrect.