11 hours ago
This is a poem that I'd come across in a book of Robert Penn Warren, and it would be enough, surrounded by his "bigger" poems.
It would be a counter-affect, kind of, in a Leopardi book.
It stands on its own and is enough in a world of poems. Either enough for somebody, or more to say, or read. This poem can be both. A freer verse Thomas Hardy.
All the particulars of poems and things: This poem relaxes in the general. Whether people think in poets or take a poem alone.
It succeeds.
It would be a counter-affect, kind of, in a Leopardi book.
It stands on its own and is enough in a world of poems. Either enough for somebody, or more to say, or read. This poem can be both. A freer verse Thomas Hardy.
All the particulars of poems and things: This poem relaxes in the general. Whether people think in poets or take a poem alone.
It succeeds.