Status Updates From Selected Poetry

“On Seeing the Elgin Marbles”: so much in 14 lines.
“A sun- a shadow of a magnitude.” (And-The unpaired rhymes of the first line adds a sort of heft.)
“O thou whose face…” “O fret not after Knowledge-I have none” - yes !!
“On Oxford” - Magd Deer Park Venison mentioned?!?!
“Lines of Seeing…” - hmm. A sense of , or wish for, immortality, yet words (and bodies) inevitability go up in smoke.

read: intro - on continuity + stepwise motion (gradatio)- gradus ad Parnassum altissimum , poetry as drama in miniature.

“On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer”(14)- “Then felt I like some watcher of the skies / When a new planet swims into his ken.” The untraversed worlds newly in view. (A newness which becomes planetary! universal! expansive beyond oneself. spinning a new reality in one mind’s view).

Ik was helemaal klaar met romantische verhalen maar zo'n gedicht schrijven over een vrouw die je een keer kort gezien hebt??? das crazy

"i stood tip-toe on a little hill" is soooooo