07-03-2019, 09:14 AM
When the topic of poetry comes, most people I speak with claim they just don’t ‘get’ modern poetry. It doesn’t have the same place in people’s lives, as it once did. So, depending on one’s school of thought, the fault can be laid either on the poet or the reader. I tend to blame the poet. It seems to me poets are only one writing for other poets, not for the average person.
There is no escape from metre; there is only mastery. TS Eliot