he does not know, Robinson in his reticence calls to mind Chekhov's storytelling technique. This is a marriage in which, for all its faults, "passion lived and died". We learn enough to be moved, if ultimately to share the speaker's fatalism. Thus Robinson, with a melancholy smile, creates a new stylistic legacy, and American poetry is ready for the splendid, expansive genius of Robert Frost.Eros Turannos
from Carol Rumens: The Guardian: Books blog: Poem of the week: Eros Turannos by Edwin Arlington Robinson
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