I have to agree, poetxyz. Normally "if you can't say something nice, say nothing at all". But this is just not a poem you can present odd bits of. Its power lies in its totality, and increasing sense of strangeness & complexity, working up to the bleak last line.
I did it for a presentation at school and I did purposefully only choose the first two verses to leave a certain impression. Of course it is not the impression you get when having read the whole poem! but it was not my intention to show the whole poem in this context...
Most un-anglican church
Cranmerian 2 years ago
This is only first of several verses of this magnificent poem. Thumbs down to this presentation.
poetxyz 2 years ago
I have to agree, poetxyz. Normally "if you can't say something nice, say nothing at all". But this is just not a poem you can present odd bits of. Its power lies in its totality, and increasing sense of strangeness & complexity, working up to the bleak last line.
jonno52 2 years ago
I did it for a presentation at school and I did purposefully only choose the first two verses to leave a certain impression. Of course it is not the impression you get when having read the whole poem! but it was not my intention to show the whole poem in this context...
SailingJo 2 years ago