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RE: Frost

> "Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening"
[...]

File this one under Overdone along with The Road Less Traveled, et al.

> He went to London when all those other American cats were
> going there to
> try to make it in poetry.  Those other cats being: Ezra
> Pound, TS Eliot,

Is there a TS Eliot/cat joke here?

> He wrote in iambic pentameter all the time.  Is he, like, the
> last poet
> to do that in the 20th c and be successful, or what?

I wrote a poem in XML today, but I can't post it because it contains
sensitive customer data.

Sorry, cats.

> On the poem: it's so so so so tired, don't you think.  You

Yes.

> Anybody have any insights into where RF fits in the line of American
> poets?  Who's he following and who follows him?  That sort of thing?
> He's not a very good modernist.  (So certainly not a
> postmodernist.)  Is
> he somehow a realist?

I'd put him somewhere between Samuel Coleridge Taylor and ee cummings, those
being the only two American poets who I can think of at the moment.

Hey, give me a break - I've been here since 5am.

--
Chris Emery
chris.emery at ecoutlook_com

NP: Tom Petty _She's The One_
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