So I read these poems on my way to NY (I’m not kidding, I was in stand still traffic). While reading these I noticed the large mythological presence placed throughout many of the poems we were assigned to read. There were also historical references using people and occasions, and religious references (The Magi, The Second Coming). I liked his involvement of the Trojan war and the important characters tied to it since I enjoy reading fictional books about the subject and Troy is my favorite movie.
For the most part I didn’t particularly enjoy his poetry. I wasn’t able to successfully break the poems down, so I didn’t understand them very well. Some of them didn’t seem to have much of a point either. Normally the biography of the author gives me somewhat of an insight but in this case... it didn’t help at all.
I did like the poem “He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven”. It was one that I understood and I thought was well written and relatable.
His essay was kind of blah as well. It discussed the importance and notion of symbolism in poetry. The discussion of elements in poetry seemed to be just a manner of his opinion in certain cases. I don’t have much to say on that topic. I agree with some of this statements, but not all.
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