Bitterness - edit

[dukealien]

It does go through hard. You're making your verse do its job.


I've realized that James Merrill is the master of American verse after Robert Frost's clunkiness and Auden's Leanneness.


I feel, dukealien, that you would do well to  make opposites united, and have your strong views measured by the quite often opposite but powerful subtle verse power, transplanting Pope, I'd say, James Merrill.


That's the direction I'm going when I do rhythm and rhyme in a strict way.

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Auden and Merrill are the go to's for this style.

Of course, you don't need any other style.


I simply see how you might like to play with those textures of those ghostboys on a poetry site.

High praise, and possibly actionable.  As to Pope, one lacks that talent of always having the right word in mind before it's needed - I tried to write a poem (or essay?) comparing forms in poetry to gears in bicycling.  It stalled before the end of the second stanza.  As to Merrill, well... talent leads one into strange passages, but I'm not one.