“There are, it seems, as many ways for a poem to be difficult as there are for it to be a poem at all.” suggests John Beer, a poet and professor of English at Portland State University. “For most people, a lot of poetry written before the twentieth century will be a challenge: the vocabulary will often be unfamiliar, the syntax may be more complicated than we are accustomed to reading, and allusions, especially to classical learning, abound.”
Posted on: Thu, 11 Jul 2013 15:32:08 +0000
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