Friday, November 7, 2008

Poetry Review: Nature's Life

This attempted quatrain from her first anthology, Nature My Way, is symbolic of what she perceived as the cruel and thoughtless mass-producing of harvest that weakens Mother Earth. Albeit, this sort of writing often encourages the anti-greenies to go out and harm the earth for the pure sake of schadenfreude, rather than promote environmentalism, but you can't reason with artists. She would've liked to say that all that glisters is not gold, and just because a wordsmith like Frost was able to fill everything with elegance and imagery while she was lacking in that department, at best, her messages were no less real or important than his. Despite her embarrassingly inflated ideas of her poetic skill, most wouldn't have missed anything if she had fallen asleep in the snow.

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