Review: Robert Lowell, Ive read until Ive been almost dead, I have many of his first editions, but he writes like all the other poets of his time, he could be exchanged for anyone of his contemporaries, yet he has a generous sense of humor.
Different, New or Good Poets (?): There are many good poets out there and a few new ones trying to come out; or perhaps different, in any case they get ones attention because they are different. Robinson Jeffers, Keats, Yeats, Dylan Thomas, Warren, W. H. Auden, Siluk, Longfellow, Frost Sandburg, C.A. Smith, the old poets. Now for a few new poets: Phillip Ellis (from the Macabre stock), Julio T. Tafur (Romanticism), Cindy White (a little Plath, and a lot of Postmodernism),
A Poem:
Float on Hope
We float on hope
And hope the tide is thin
Until we find our island.
Commentary: Where have we been! where we are going?Poetry has many distinguished elements to it, perhaps one may call them beautiful changes, works that embrace many aspects of emotional experiences. Verse can be romantic and set the mood, hopefully marked by direct and orderly observations. Many contemporary poems are simply opinions among the very best of writers, and worthy of serious attention. Robert Penn Warren does this in much of his poetry. Other poets prefer to use witty and detached statements, perhaps because of detached minds. We get the Heroes and Heroines, perhaps the greater body of the old poems we find this, yet some younger poets are trying their skill at bringing to light, these complex poems in their new form, disturbing as they can be in the best of contemporary poetry, some are good. But where are we headed for? Free Verse was the dominate form of the Postmodernism, yet I see many old forms coming back, with rhythm, meter and sound as on the meaning and communication.
Dennis L. Siluk
Poet Laureate of San Jeronimo, Peru (2005)
Awarded the Grand Cross of the City (October, 2006)
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