POETRY PUZZLE
Sir,-F.S. has not only amused himself with his "Poetry Puzzle." His "few wiseacres and groundlings" had some excuse for being disconcerted. His puzzle is not so very puzzling, and perhaps justifies more or less the opinion of Auden’s work given in The Long Week-end (Graves and Hodge)’ that "Auden was a synthetic writer and perhaps never wrote an original line." This "new poetry" is no longer very new, and I, and I think many others, too, fail to find that it is poetry. An example I came across lately in "Introduction to Poetry" had but one intelligible line: "a black goat wandered lookingly." Interesting perhaps ... for
the goat-
P. R.
Mills
(Eli Bay).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 11, Issue 274, 22 September 1944, Page 5
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115POETRY PUZZLE New Zealand Listener, Volume 11, Issue 274, 22 September 1944, Page 5
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