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The Wild Swans at Coole

January 29, 2018January 29, 2018 ~ Frank Hudson ~ Leave a comment

Let us for a moment consider length in English language poetry. Despite the customary inclusion of one or two very short poems in most American poetry anthologies (“The Red Wheelbarrow”   or “In A Station of the Metro”  typically), one can easily derive from them an accumulated mainstream judgement that poems shorter than a sonnet’s 14 … Continue reading The Wild Swans at Coole

Wild Swans

January 26, 2018January 29, 2018 ~ Frank Hudson ~ 1 Comment

Let’s return again to Edna St. Vincent Millay as I start a short series of pieces using words by more well-known poets, each of whom considers the book of nature as played out by birds. Millay’s “Wild Swans”  may be somewhat overshadowed in the Cygnet Committee by William Butler Yeats’ “The Wild Swans at Coole,”  … Continue reading Wild Swans

August Moonrise

August 18, 2019August 18, 2019 ~ Frank Hudson ~ 2 Comments

I almost feel like I need to place a warning label on today’s piece: Rated RE Strong Romantic Emotional Content. Thanatopsic material. May not be suitable for those who have not sufficiently worked through issues with self-harm or the experience of self-dissolution. Modernism had a strong tendency toward a critique and reaction to romanticism and … Continue reading August Moonrise

March 2018 Parlando Top 10 Part 3

March 9, 2018March 9, 2018 ~ Frank Hudson ~ Leave a comment

We return with the next three in the count-down of the most listened to and liked audio pieces of last Winter. Like last time, all poets who worked in the 19th Century, but in this group, all men. Two out of the three today are from the British Isles. In may be no surprise, given … Continue reading March 2018 Parlando Top 10 Part 3

The Wood-Pile

February 1, 2018February 1, 2018 ~ Frank Hudson ~ Leave a comment

Robert Frost is every bit the master of word music as Yeats and Millay. What makes Frost stand out is that he was every bit the thoroughgoing early 20th Century modernist as any of his free-verse contemporaries, while retaining an ease with accentual syllabic meter. Here’s an example of Frost handling a subject just as … Continue reading The Wood-Pile

Poems In Unrhymed Cadence

October 8, 2017October 20, 2017 ~ Frank Hudson ~ 1 Comment

In 1899, as the 19th Century was leaving in Victorian London, a 13-year-old boy from a large poor family left school and went to work at whatever jobs that could be found. An unremarkable story. After several years, and some job security as a civil service typist, he could enroll at a workingman’s night school. … Continue reading Poems In Unrhymed Cadence

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