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  • on I Hear America Singing by Walt Whitman, on October 18, 2003
    Well you can make all the excuses you want, it is still doggerel. I never said "singing" was inappropiate, just that it was not the best choice and I'll leave that to you to figure out why. The beauty of the list having no pattern, #gwarf# ha ha ha, what an excuse for lousy poetry. And of course he was going there but he never arrived because he is mainly a doggrelist and could not establish anything more than a redundant image.

  • on Apology To Delia : For Desiring A Lock Of Her Hair by William Cowper, on October 17, 2003
    "That Eden where it grew" is a real kicker. But I still think he is making a wounded excuse

  • on Sir Launcelot and Queen Guinevere by Alfred Lord Tennyson, on October 17, 2003
    Why is Tennyson in the Americas section?
    Tennyson for all his great gifts is a bore.
    "Sometimes the linnet piped his song:
    Sometimes the throstle whistled strong:
    Sometimes the sparhawk, wheel'd along, "
    what does this add? Verbosity is not a virtue in poets Mr. Tennyson.

  • on I Hear America Singing by Walt Whitman, on October 17, 2003
    "I HEAR America singing, the varied carols I hear"
    Clever beginning but "singing" should be "sing" if he had wanted to really shine forth. Next comes a list that doesn't show any great pattern except, carpenters - masons, boatman - deckhand, shoemaker - hatter, wood-cutter - ploughboy, mother - young wife - girl (not particularly good if you think about it). Then the night and the young fellows "singing, with open mouths", and that is an atrocious piece of poetry. How else is one suppose to sing but with an open mouth? He should have thought about it a little harder. Walt, your poem is not very good.