A Bachelors in English

An Ode to Our Educations

The beach now renders sand and stone,
Occasionally, the salty tide
Runs its hands as undertones
Along your frail and bitter sides
And, in seeping in what they confide,
Uncover fossils, unused bones!

While Albion produces waves
That swallow poets in their prime,
Some burning embers mark the graves
Where Keats and Byron spend their time
Developing some unread rhymes
That spit out phlegm amid the slaves.

For dollar-flying industries,
Provoking thoughts for unused time
Spent critiquing mysteries
Of Nature, only when sublime,
Speak louder than our musing mimes,
And subdue new Antigone's.

Dead now is Wordsworth, Burns, and Donne
Berryman, Whitman, and Spicer,
From their words, we'll spew up clones,
To organize their motives nicer;
"Putting trees in deli-slicers
Efficiently revives the tone."

And staring up into the sky
In perfect silence, while the learn'd
Lecturers propose idle why's,
Afraid of life's established burn,
You see a plane; and in return,
Realize we're bred to never fly.

Author's Note

There is an underlying theme here of technology vs literature, which is why so much focus is put on Romantic Poets. Above that, the final stanza mimics Walt Whitman's poem, "When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer"

Reviews

[Moflo]

Forgive me, Reviews, but I found your review to be highly nonconstructive. It appears to me that you have merely slathered as much negativity as you could within 2-3 sentences while, perhaps at best, skimming the above poem. You have made statements that serve as non sequiturs, but perhaps could have been found productive if you maybe cited an example of what you were saying rather than boisterously spewing insults. The easiest criticism is the negative one, and the fact that you jump from poem to poem offering the negative counter-perspective suggests nothing about your intellectual and much about your work ethic, or lack thereof. On top of your negativity, the fact that you have the audacity to say, in your profile, that you offer "real" reviews when you actually offer slander is rather comical. Have a good day.

[Liza]

ahhh; you are definitely evolving quickly through this poetry writing - wonderful imagery, use of abstract elements with drops of subtle wisdom and reminding that though we humans have the ability to think and make connections; it does not make us superior than any other living creature here on this earth.

[Celeste21]

Beautiful scenic beginning that draws the reader in. Is this poem about being upset that what is considered poetry no-a-days is different from before? And why is it we cannot fly? Were you looking at the window while the teacher was talking and realized we need more respect for ancient poets?