[New-Poetry] Yeats query

Rsgwynn1 at cs.com Rsgwynn1 at cs.com
Wed Nov 8 15:57:10 EST 2006


In a message dated 11/8/2006 12:01:30 PM Central Standard Time, 
grahamd at ripon.edu writes: 
> 
> 
> I have in my memory the conviction that Yeats wrote a # of poems as single
> sentences.  Flipping through my edition, I'm not immediately finding them.
> 
> Can  anyone point me in the right direction?
> 
> I'm putting together a little class handout on one-sentence poems, and would
> also be interested in any suggestions.  (Yes, I've already got Frost's
> "Silken Tent" and Stevens's "The Snow Man.")
Ed Hirsch has one in his first book about basketball (it's an elegy for a 
friend).  I have one in my "1916" sequence which is a sonnet about Rupert Brooke 
spoken by Henry James.  How about something like cummings's "next to of course 
god I"?
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