tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5010170380967519230.post6560404961914915856..comments2024-03-23T20:37:37.891-07:00Comments on First Known When Lost: "The Salt Wind": Two PoemsStephen Pentzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14882220887712092005noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5010170380967519230.post-87691125878284274012011-11-29T15:34:07.326-08:002011-11-29T15:34:07.326-08:00zmkc: thank you very much for visiting again, and ...zmkc: thank you very much for visiting again, and for your thoughts. I guess Gunn's thoughts struck home for me because, a few months ago, I revisited Yeats's poetry and ended up saying something like: "Oh, come off it, Willie, get over yourself!" Thus, Gunn's contrast between the two seems telling to me.<br /><br />Oh, yes, Hardy is unremittingly pessimistic and grave-haunted, and he probably wrote too many poems, but he doesn't wind himself up into ecstasies about himself and the universe the way Yeats (and others) do.<br /><br />As always, thanks.Stephen Pentzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14882220887712092005noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5010170380967519230.post-38404920013968943512011-11-29T02:40:41.156-08:002011-11-29T02:40:41.156-08:00You are right about the poem. Gunn's comments ...You are right about the poem. Gunn's comments about rhetoric and the lack of it in Hardy's poetry are v interesting. Will have to read more of it and see if he is right. I expect he is.zmkchttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08972549292961948240noreply@blogger.com