From Graeme: "I love The Bean Eaters for its simplicity and obviousness. I would challenge anyone to offer an interpretation, but that might not stop them.
Of Robert Frost by Gwendolyn Brooks
There is a little lightning in his eyes.
Iron at the mouth.
His brows ride neither too far up nor down.
He is splendid. With a place to stand.
Some glowing in the common blood.
Some specialness within.
One Way – see poem…
The arrow points to Times
Square where once the Wins-
ton man would blow 1,000
rings of smoke each day
but the photographer caps
the sign so it reads left to
right, [arrow], ONE as his
lens goes on its way, the
way we each go, seeing
what we see on façades
some of us never asking
a question about what lies
inside, what is left out.
Notes to myself: bout Christopher Smart (1722-71) Jubilate Agno (Rejoice in the Lamb): This is one of my favorite parts: https://interestingliterature.com/2020/08/christopher-smart-my-cat-jeoffry-analysis/ - google_vignette
Looking up G.C. Waldrep [1](b. 1968 --so I'm a good 16 years older!) I stumble on J. Gallaher also a youngster, b. in 1965 https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/57005/in-a-landscape-i
Is this a poem?
https://reedsy.com/blog/guide/poetry/elements-of-poetry/
Meter, lineation, Point of View, theme, metaphor... free verse[2]
excerpt of Heart by Dorianne Laux
The heart shifts shape of its own accord—
from bird to ax, from pinwheel
to budded branch. It rolls over in the chest,
a brown bear groggy with winter, skips
like a child at the fair, stopping in the shade
of the fireworks booth, the fat lady's tent,
the corn dog stand. Or the heart
[1] G.C. Waldrep was born and raised in the South. He earned his BA from Harvard University, a PhD in history from Duke University, and an MFA in poetry from the University of Iowa
[2] Free Verse: lines are unrhymed, and there are no consistent metrical patterns. But, that doesn’t mean it is entirely without structure. Used in modern and contemporary writing and is useful when the writer wants to mimic natural speech patterns. Examples of free verse poetry include: ‘Historic Evening’ by Arthur Rimbaud, ‘O Me! O Life!’ by Walt Whitman, and ‘What Are Years’ by Marianne Moore.
vs. Rhymed Poem: there are many different types of rhyme in poetry, such as end rhyme, internal rhyme, and half rhyme. They give poems a musical feeling, whether they appear at the end or in the middle of a line. Examples of the first can be seen in poems like ‘Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening‘ by Robert Frost, ‘The Tyger‘ by William Blake, and ‘Sonnet 18‘ by William Shakespeare.
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