Not Long Comments

THE VERSE IS LIKE LIGHTNING and lightning is extremely powerful in a very circumscribed area, and then it is gone. It's the brevity of even this brilliant display of light and power which preoccupies the poet. Transience dogs all of our endeavors., it mocks our attempt to make a permanent mark of our presence and domination in the world. ultimately, we can all of us, from the strongest to the weakest, repeat John Keats' despairing words, I AM ONE WHOSE NAME WAS WRIT IN WATER.