Your Reviews on Poetry titles

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To start us off, here's a review of my current favorite book of poetry. I've read it through many times now. I may need a new copy soon. Or grab one of her other collections and be re-invigorated.

To start off, my endorsement of Walt to any and all :D

>3 SandraArdnas: Thank you, Sandra! I forgot how much I love his poetry and its message of self-discovery. Many of his poems directly address the reader as the one you included. He does that so well, I do feel that he has hooked his hand around my waist.

I know now I must re-read him. It's been too long. I could use that glorious infusion of exaltation of spirit.

I recently read a slim collection of Robert Frost’s verse and was impressed with his ability to capture emotion in conversation between people unfamiliar with one another until that moment.

>5 elenchus: I agree--Frost is more than some safe old guy, especially if you feel the ceaseless tug of nature in your own nature.

One of my favorite poems is "Home Burial," and in it, too, he captures the concerns with nature, from the perspective of a farmer (and farmer's wife). The dialogue in it is perfection. In this case, the speakers know--or think they know--one another very well.

In some overzealous decluttering episode a decade ago, I donated my Complete Poems. I am going right now to find a nice used copy. Christmas present to me from me.

“Home Burial” was included in that selection and I remember it, and agree that theme of nature alongside relations with neighbours is well represented.