10-07-2021, 06:57 AM
(10-06-2021, 10:07 PM)alexorande Wrote: Why couldn't you finish the narrative poem?It was a mock epic, written in ye olde school style. Didn't have much substance.
I don't think a poem can sustain itself for more than a few pages. The limit is probably the individual poems in The Four Quartets. Anything longer, and it's hard to hold it all together.
It was different back in the day - we hold the old masters to a different standard. We are happier suspending disbelief with them.
45 poems is a lot. Dylan THomas's first volume contained 18 poems. He was but a lad then, but we hold the dead to a different standard as well (if someone were to write like DT today at the age of 19, he'd be dismissed as a pretender, rightfully)