What I don't understand is how Latin hexameters SOUND. When my oldLatin teachers recited Virgil it sounded (as I remember) much like Clough. Indeed surely Clough would have made his English hexameters sound like Latin ones. I can never understand how longs and shorts actually SOUND. Is there something on the web perhaps?
Incidentally, Gregory, that Mushroom poem is th first one by Sylvia Plath I've ever seen that I liked. Perhaps it's partly because she's not talking about her love/hate for jack-booted men which is ineffably tedious, or so I find.
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