tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3020960402708303830.post1953335391377942405..comments2024-03-28T14:53:38.827-04:00Comments on BLCKDGRD: To Warm the Frozen Swamp as Best It Could with the Slow Smokeless Burning of Decay, or: Born One-Hundred Forty Years Ago Today, Eighty-Nine TodayUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3020960402708303830.post-52907052875710121092014-03-26T18:19:17.215-04:002014-03-26T18:19:17.215-04:00when i was a schoolboy way back when they had us m...when i was a schoolboy way back when they had us memorize robert frost poems (not these) - he was still alive then<br /><br />are there any still-living or recently dead poets of the latter half of the twentieth century whom the children are being asked to memorize today?<br /><br />mistah charley, ph.d.https://www.blogger.com/profile/06303695341246058680noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3020960402708303830.post-17745587238228621592014-03-26T17:20:26.581-04:002014-03-26T17:20:26.581-04:00Yes! but some more than others.
Hecht taught that...Yes! but some more than others.<br /><br />Hecht taught that this was Frost's defining poem about his poetry, his canon, his legacy, and the worth of canons and legacies. Maybe Hecht was right, maybe not, but I can't read it without thinking it is.BDRhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06557941385560728052noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3020960402708303830.post-78747060791606153722014-03-26T16:53:45.371-04:002014-03-26T16:53:45.371-04:00Wait! Isn't all poetry the equivalent of blegg...Wait! Isn't all poetry the equivalent of bleggalgazing?Jim H.https://www.blogger.com/profile/02088100982761595050noreply@blogger.com