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   Antiqueight (antiqueight@mastodon.ie)'s status on Friday, 16-Aug-2024 19:09:46 JST Antiqueight

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   • Nicholas Whyte

   @nwhyte I can't read it - it's too much. Though I wouldn't even have given it the status of doggerel. This is the kind of thing that confuses me about poetry. How can someone lauded as a great poet have this kind of stuff in their portfolio - or - Is this good? Is this laudable poetry??

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     Nicholas Whyte (nwhyte@wandering.shop)'s status on Friday, 16-Aug-2024 19:09:47 JST Nicholas Whyte

     I was intrigued to learn that E.M. Forster took the title of “A Passage To India” from a poem by Walt Whitman, and hunted the poem down.

     Wow. I am not a Whitman fan anyway, but this is even worse doggerel than usual.

     “Swiftly I shrivel at the thought of God” - well, in my experience it’s often a cold swimming pool that can have that effect.

     https://www.poetryverse.com/walt-whitman-poems/passage-india