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2019-10-01 05:55 pm (UTC)
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How about Auden? Sometimes he blazes and sometimes he's just being clever- and often in the same poem.
"Lay you sleeping head, my love" has a heartbreakingly plainspoken first verse- then descends into high-sounding verbiage.
The same complaint could be made about Donne.
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Date: 2019-10-01 05:55 pm (UTC)"Lay you sleeping head, my love" has a heartbreakingly plainspoken first verse- then descends into high-sounding verbiage.
The same complaint could be made about Donne.