as she wrote more freely in the 1960s and 70s; she grew less willing to obscure images with metaphysics. But her gift for animating metaphor with sudden drama (very much the Coleridgian tactic) shines through these few balladic stanzas whose desolating last line curls and repeats with a wave-like inevitability.
The Other Mariners
from The Times Literary Supplement: Poem of the Week: The Other Mariners
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