Sir-Poems are mirrors of time reflecting the ego of one, the trend of a mass. Following the sun of Shakespeare,. the moon-pallor of Milton reflected the mind of a people, the ego of one; even as Pope, the polisher of brass, mirrored his age with another device. In our quickening day, increasingly jarred, a poem reflects by loosened form and with tightened words, intense and sharp. (I have written the above to prove that free verse can be detected when cast as prose. Much of what is Called Biblical prose is free verse.)
WALLACE
GAITLAND
(Invercargill)
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 14, Issue 349, 1 March 1946, Page 18
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96Untitled New Zealand Listener, Volume 14, Issue 349, 1 March 1946, Page 18
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