12-16-2018, 12:27 PM
(12-16-2018, 09:58 AM)rowens Wrote: I don't disagree with you. All I'm saying is there are a lot of poets that I couldn't have understood without outside help. And once I did understand them I got something out of it.Count me among your numbers. I have so often been in need of outsiders insights into a poet's work before I could truly begin to appreciate their work. Wallace Stevens was a good example of this, as you mentioned. It wasn't until I read Harold Bloom's book on the poetry of Stevens that I was able to "crack his code", as so to speak. Then poems like The Auroras Of Autumn and The Owl In The Sarcophagus began to make sense to me. I was even able to enjoy his poetic cadence more.
Anyway...
You can't hate me more than I hate myself. I win.
"When the spirit of justice eloped on the wings
Of a quivering vibrato's bittersweet sting."
"When the spirit of justice eloped on the wings
Of a quivering vibrato's bittersweet sting."