The one question that comes first to my mind is related to Tom's quote of Wilbur concerning "stretching the form." The poem A Wall in the Woods: Cummington contains the delightful stanzas that follow:
<dir>There is no tracing
The leaps and scurries with which
He braids his long castle, ra-
Cing, by gap, ledge, niche
And Cyclopean
Passages, to reappear
Sentrylike on a rampart
Thirty feet from here.</dir>
I am curious about the audacious line break on "ra- / cing." How does one make such a decision in such a poem as the poem in question? It's positively remarkable, quite effective.
Curtis.
[This message has been edited by Curtis Gale Weeks (edited January 28, 2003).]
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