03-09-2011, 10:29 AM
I think that's why I prefer Herrick. I never really understood Wordsworth. He wrote solely about nature without using it as a metaphor at all. Just objective beauty with no subjective meaning. To me that isn't poetry. But of course I could be wrong. There's probably a whole world of subtext I'm missing with Wordsworth.
"We believe that we invent symbols. The truth is that they invent us; we are their creatures, shaped by their hard, defining edges." - Gene Wolfe