Excellent analysis of how the rhyme serves the theme. It's the sort of analysis that, in my experience, often overstates the case, or makes a case on dubious grounds, but this one seems right to me.
I've heard of Jones Very somewhere or other, but this is my introduction. Thank you.
I am so glad you wrote about Very. He has always intrigued me! I can’t even remember where I first read his bio either, but I have a book around here that features a bunch of his sonnets.
Very is new to me. I like the atmospheric feel of this still poem.
Excellent analysis of how the rhyme serves the theme. It's the sort of analysis that, in my experience, often overstates the case, or makes a case on dubious grounds, but this one seems right to me.
I've heard of Jones Very somewhere or other, but this is my introduction. Thank you.
Very is one of the Winters-championed poets I am unfamiliar with. I just looked up the one Winters thought his best (The Created: https://www.amerlit.com/poems/POEMS%20Very,%20Jones%20The%20Created%20(1839)%20analysis.pdf). Yours is a better choice, I think, in that the words fit what he is describing.
I am so glad you wrote about Very. He has always intrigued me! I can’t even remember where I first read his bio either, but I have a book around here that features a bunch of his sonnets.
What a strange person!