Tuesday, February 10, 2009

Great Regulars: Here the mixed feelings natural to elegy

are very present. The details--each and cumulatively--are the bodily expression of love, they are its substance and, by means of lines of verse, they become its celebration. All the harder to bear then is the loss of them. The last two and a half lines have the keenness of poetry in the act of telling the truth.

from The Guardian: Poetry Workshop: elegies

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