
WH Auden
Frank Skinner's Poetry Podcast
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I'll Have a Quick Go, but It Will Not Help Last Again.
Imbroidles icorus, for instance, how everything turns away quite leisurely from the disaster. I wonder if orden wants the tradition of rhyme, but he wants the sort of modernity of a much looser free verse. He sort of echoes the old masters. They're sort of bastions of art tradition, but here they're saying quite modern things. In the icora story, everyone sees it as a warning about getting ideas above your station, aiming too high. But dedelas act, he says to his son, don't fly too high, or the sun will mount the wings. And don't flytoo low, or they'll get damp and also
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