Saturday, May 21, 2016

A Worldly Country Comments

Rating: 4.8

Not the smoothness, not the insane clocks on the square,
the scent of manure in the municipal parterre,
not the fabrics, the sullen mockery of Tweety Bird,
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John Ashbery
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Kumarmani Mahakul 27 June 2021

From palace and hovel, the great parade is noticed with great vision and perceptional manner. An excellent sharing is done. A nice poem of the day is chosen..

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Sylvia Frances Chan 27 June 2021

Congratulations as being chosen as The Modern Poem Of The Day!

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Sylvia Frances Chan 27 June 2021

Profound poem! Such an impressive write about his Worldly Country and in all stanzas so well best end rhymes. WOW! What a poetic art.patiently built up

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Sylvia Frances Chan 27 June 2021

Awards and honors 2011, National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters To my Favourites!

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Sylvia Frances Chan 27 June 2021

1) To read an Ashbery poem with the intent to explicate in the traditional sense is to make a daring, perhaps foolhardy, leap of semantic faith.5 Stars full for this explicit good poem!

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