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Cargoes, and the poetry of romantic and economic Man by KevinDunn, from I-Like-RhymesJohn Masefield’s “Cargoes” is a very fine poem, packing an enormous amount of imagery and atmosphere into just 87 words. It is clear, vivid and immediate, and has been deservedly enshrined as a classic and repeatedly anthologized:
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Oldpoetry has 84911 poems total by 5698 authors. 27590 comments.
Oldpoetry has 84911 poems total by 5698 authors. 27590 comments.
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on Apparition of Love by Carlos Drummond de Andrade, 3 hours agoWanting and denial here in these rich and purposely convoluted verses, so that the wish sound like denial, and the denials sound like impossibilities yet all that is here, seems and even the seeming quality is preferred to absence...love does not die, within us, and there is hope despite all things, distressing and gratefully seems we never lose hope...another amazing poem from this brilliant thinker...PK
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on The Wander's Illusion by Carlos Drummond de Andrade, 3 hours agoReality peeled away here in layers as if we began at death and moved in time and space in a meaning less set of directions, since we know the end of the story, the adventure is for naught...and yet the illusion, is simply irresistable... an amazing poem and poet, one of my favorites so far...PK
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on Poetry by Carlos Drummond de Andrade, 3 hours agoI sometimes start to write verse from feeling, but find that there is a separation, not to be undone of the feelings and the words. Here i think he has found no matter the excellence or exquisite passion, nothing can portray the glow like the sun within, in a not to be repeated moment that shines like standing atop a great mountain for the first time...PK
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