[New-Poetry] One-sentence poems

[Suzanne Baran]

Have you all considered:

John Keats's "Bright star, would I were
stedfast<http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/%7Ekeith/poems/BrightStar.html>
" William Carlos Williams's "The Red
Wheelbarrow<http://www.poets.org/poems/poems.cfm?prmID=1382>"
and Linda Pastan's "The New
Dog<http://www.cortlandreview.com/issue/7/pastan7.htm>
."


On 11/9/06, Alan C Golding <acgold01 at louisville.edu> wrote:
>
> There's lots of examples in Whitman, David, esp. in *Calamus* and
> *Drum-Taps*--In Paths Untrodden, Recorders Ages Hence, When I Heard at
> the Close of the Day, Here the Frailest Leaves of Me, I Dream'd in a
> Dream to name a few in the former volume, and Cavalry Crossing a Ford,
> Vigil Strange, A March in the Ranks Hard-Prest, Reconciliation in the
> latter.  And some of his most famous short poems, like When I Heard the
> Learn'd Astronomer and Dalliance of the Eagles.
>
> I bet Dickinson wrote a lot of them too (off the top of my head I can
> think of "Presentiment is that long shadow in the grass").  Though what
> counts as a sentence in ED is a matter of some conjecture.
>
> Alan
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