07-01-2011, 05:22 AM
I read Bill Bryson's In a Sunburned County (a play on words from one of the lines of that very poem), and enjoyed his travels in Austrailia. Living in the US, while we may have some iconic poets I don't know if we have a defining poem.
Maybe Frost's The Road not Travelled for the view of individualism here. I might lean toward Bukowski's The Genius of the Crowd (but I can be jaded). Other options: WCW The Red Wheelbarrow or Whitman's Song of Myself.
Nothing directly about the country that I can think of.
Maybe Frost's The Road not Travelled for the view of individualism here. I might lean toward Bukowski's The Genius of the Crowd (but I can be jaded). Other options: WCW The Red Wheelbarrow or Whitman's Song of Myself.
Nothing directly about the country that I can think of.
The secret of poetry is cruelty.--Jon Anderson