Orient Ode Comments

Loveliness! ! Thanks for sharing this poem with us.

Excellent ode, ...........................

Several minutes of spacey SPACE MUSIC accompanies your reading of this poem. It's subtle and understated in a way the poem is NOT. This long poem is proof enough that the diction and rhythms of poems had to be revolutionized by the Poems of Modernism. First, Yeats purged traditional rhymed stanzaic poetry of this kind slackness, ridiculously inflated vocabulary and useless length. What Yeats gave to 20th century poet is clarity. Second, two American poets, Ezra Pound and Williams Carlos Williams, life-long friends, reformed poetry by simplifying everything poets like Thompson complicated to an appalling degree. And finally, T, S, Eliot found a new voice for religious poetry, in ASH WEDNESDAY he presents an epiphany similar to this ponderous Ode.

When men shall say to thee: Lo! Christ is there, Believe them: yea, and this- then art thou seer, When all thy crying clear Is but: Lo here! lo there! - ah me, lo everywhere! '... deep expression. Great write. Thanks and congratulations to his soul.