09 September 2008

Dear Roethke, Whitman & Frost

I just got my ass handed to me in a poetry class. Frost, I am sorry I ever thought you trite. I apologize for all those who made you seem so. Your brilliance and your depth astound me. I'm glad your poems did not mean what I had been led to believe. It was so surface - so patriotic, so quick and transparent. But that is not the case with you. It's the opposite I find. The irony and the puns have made me question, made me look, made me laugh. So shrewed and sharp-witted; you have added to my life. 


I now take pleasure in your poems, 
And that has made all the difference. 
(Irony wholly intended.)

1 comments:

Anonymous said...

Something there is that doesn't love a blog

but I found your words encouraging

I am studying Frost right now

thanx