We’re drawing near to the end of April, Poetry Month, with
today being GREAT POETRY READING DAY.
If you wish to participate, you’re supposed to read some “great”
poetry today. I guess what constitutes “great” is in the mind of the reader. Just
to be on the safe side, I celebrated by reading some poetry from the literature
textbook,
THE
EXPERIENCE OF LITERATURE, edited by Lionell Trilling. Surely
poetry found in a college textbook can be considered “great", right? The dozen
poems I read for GREAT POETRY READING DAY are:
OUT OF THE CRADLE ENDLESSLY ROCKING -
Walt Whitman
A SUPERMARKET IN CALIFORNIA - Allen Ginsburg
TO AUNT ROSE - Allen Ginsburg
DO NOT GO GENTLE INTO THAT GOOD NIGHT
- Dylan Thomas
VARIATION: ODE TO FEAR (Timor mortis
conturbat me.)
- Robert Penn Warren
ALL IN GREEN WENT MY LOVE RIDING - E. E.
Cummings
THE ELEPHANT IS SLOW TO MATE - D.H.
Lawrence
THE SECOND COMING - William Butler Yeats
THE SUBALTERNS - Thomas Hardy
BECAUSE I COULD NOT STOP FOR DEATH - Emily
Dickenson
A WOMAN’S LAST WORD - Robert Browning
THE JUMBLIES - Edward Lear
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