Glad you wrote this. I tried to get into Poetry a few years ago but it was tough. One author/poet I can recommend is Czeslaw Milosz. He offers a fitting definition across the backdrop of Soviet Communism in Poland in The Captive Mind.
"Poetry as we have known it can be defined as the individual temperament refracted through social convention. The poetry of the New Faith can, on the contrary, be defined as social convention refracted through the individual temperament. That is why the poets who are most adapted to the new situation are those endowed with dramatic talent".
His work is more important than ever I think given the current times we live in.
Also John Keats can be recommended, purely for the fact that the SciFi epic Hyperion is modeled after his unfinished poem of the same name.
Glad you wrote this. I tried to get into Poetry a few years ago but it was tough. One author/poet I can recommend is Czeslaw Milosz. He offers a fitting definition across the backdrop of Soviet Communism in Poland in The Captive Mind.
"Poetry as we have known it can be defined as the individual temperament refracted through social convention. The poetry of the New Faith can, on the contrary, be defined as social convention refracted through the individual temperament. That is why the poets who are most adapted to the new situation are those endowed with dramatic talent".
His work is more important than ever I think given the current times we live in.
Also John Keats can be recommended, purely for the fact that the SciFi epic Hyperion is modeled after his unfinished poem of the same name.