Inspired by Tonight's Poetry Homework
Nov. 17th, 2003 10:59 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
aseDear contemporary poets of America:
Words cannot describe my loathing of Walt Whitman's "confessions of an eighteenth century hippie" style. Please purge this pernicious abuse of the english language from your poetic influences, lest I compare your deathless free verse to thirteen year old girls' atavistic fan fiction.
Should said purge leave you without muses, I suggest looking up the work of Robert Frost, Tennyson, Emily Dickinson, Ezra Pound, William Shakespeare, John Donne and W. B. Yeats, all of whom can knock most contemporary poetry into a cocked hat in two stanzas or less.
Yrs,
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ase
Words cannot describe my loathing of Walt Whitman's "confessions of an eighteenth century hippie" style. Please purge this pernicious abuse of the english language from your poetic influences, lest I compare your deathless free verse to thirteen year old girls' atavistic fan fiction.
Should said purge leave you without muses, I suggest looking up the work of Robert Frost, Tennyson, Emily Dickinson, Ezra Pound, William Shakespeare, John Donne and W. B. Yeats, all of whom can knock most contemporary poetry into a cocked hat in two stanzas or less.
Yrs,
ase