[New-Poetry] Re: Rating the Housman

[Michael Snider]

On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 7:44 PM, <jforjames at aol.com> wrote:

> (In the end, the great failure of the poem is that something conventially
> seen as beautiful by about 99.9% of the population--cherry trees in
> bloom--is seen as beautiful and worth experiencing over and over by the
> poet. The great poets tend to see as beautiful the things that other's might
> overlook. A haiku poet would have done this poem in three lines, and saved
> us 9 more, pace the logic of the second stanza.)
>

Finnegan, sometmes the great poets point to things the rest of us may
overlook — and sometimes thy remind us of the great common themes of human
life, in langauge that ,makes it new again.
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