Posted by Racer on December 16, 2003, at 19:53:17
In reply to Is poetry dead? Or is it alive?, posted by zenhussy on December 11, 2003, at 21:14:27
lol
Yes, Yeats probably was the last Great Poet to write in English. Just onaccounta that, though, t'ain't mean poetry is dead, too, though.
"Never shall a young man, thrown into despair,
by those great honey colored ramparts at your ear
love you for yourself alone,
and not your yellow hair..."Advice, girlfriend: poetry is alive as long as there's them as reads it. Each poem can be a monument to immortality, or just another bunch of words that rhyme. The Reader has to help make the latter into the former, so as long as we read them, they's amongst the living.
(And why does anything about Yeats always drive me to read Auden???)
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