I haven't read a big chunk of your list! This is exciting, because now I get to go read them. Specifically, "Autumn Begins in Martins Ferry, Ohio," "Horses and Men in the Rain," the untitled poem that begins In Search of England, and... well, "Nostalgia" until you mentioned it earlier.
I'm also not sure I've read Millay's "Journey."
Modernism and its close successors ~speak to me~
I'm right there with you. I think my list looks more contemporary-weighted than the majority of my taste usually runs, mainly because there's a metaphor... device... thing... that hits my brain squarely in the pleasure center and that I find much more often in contemporary poetry. But still. Modernists and the people directly before and after them = best.
Re: steps and/or directions-- that immediately made me think of Adrienne Rich's "The School Among the Ruins." (http://www.poetsagainstwar.com/chapbook.asp#Rich) Not all of it, but a lot of the middle, which I think is the best anyway.
"Ulysses"--oh god yes. I like very little Tennyson, actually, but a lot of "Ulysses," and especially the end, I think is great.
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Date: 2010-11-10 04:56 am (UTC)Where to start. Okay:
I haven't read a big chunk of your list! This is exciting, because now I get to go read them. Specifically, "Autumn Begins in Martins Ferry, Ohio," "Horses and Men in the Rain," the untitled poem that begins In Search of England, and... well, "Nostalgia" until you mentioned it earlier.
I'm also not sure I've read Millay's "Journey."
Modernism and its close successors ~speak to me~
I'm right there with you. I think my list looks more contemporary-weighted than the majority of my taste usually runs, mainly because there's a metaphor... device... thing... that hits my brain squarely in the pleasure center and that I find much more often in contemporary poetry. But still. Modernists and the people directly before and after them = best.
Re: steps and/or directions-- that immediately made me think of Adrienne Rich's "The School Among the Ruins." (http://www.poetsagainstwar.com/chapbook.asp#Rich) Not all of it, but a lot of the middle, which I think is the best anyway.
"Ulysses"--oh god yes. I like very little Tennyson, actually, but a lot of "Ulysses," and especially the end, I think is great.