...the sense of privacy, indeed might deprecate offended ears, and need not tolerate effrontery. Poetry3 I, too, dislike it. Reading it, however, with a perfect...it, one discovers in it, after all, a place for the genuine. 1 Form: Iambic tetrameter. AABB end rhymes — Vocabulary: fen: marsh. 2 Form: Free verse...

...about its own authenticity, and guilty reveling in its own rhetorical power, Moore's "Poetry" ( 1967) : I, too, dislike it. Reading it, however, with a perfect...it, one discovers in it, after all, a place for the genuine. Further reading Literary works WH Auden, Collected Poems, ed. Edward Mendelson. New York:...

...'Poetry' (NP: 1329): I, too, dislike it: there are things that are important beyond all this fiddle. Reading it, however, with a perfect contempt for it, one discovers in it after all, a place for the genuine. Richard Hugo ( in the epigraph to this chapter) is on to something in implying that, in poetry,...