Hello, I'm back-- after being in absentia for a few days tending to matters non-poetical. I want to quickly thank Janet, in particular, for providing those interesting and contradictory snippets about Frost as private person-- and also for backing me up on my potentially blasphemous disaproval of the ending of "Birches."
Alan, I think you're absolutely correct about Plath (who ate men like air)-- and her endings. Then there's Dorothy Parker-- "you might as well live"; and Wright's "Suddenly I realize / that if I stepped out of my body I woud break / into blossom."-- that's a brilliant break after "break", isn't it? And there are so many more! We could probably continue this thread forever, but perhaps it will behoove us to move on soon.
Marilyn
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