http://mindofwinter.org/2003/11/20/unfortunate/ A forum for discussing poems and poetry Mon, 01 Dec 2008 21:11:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 http://mindofwinter.org/2003/11/20/unfortunate/#comment-13 Michael Fri, 21 Nov 2003 05:01:39 +0000 http://mindofwinter.org/2003/11/20/unfortunate/#comment-13 Rupert Brooke is in my pantheon of poets, though I wouldn't consider this his strongest poem. I just wanted to post it because of the superficial sympathies with <a href="http://mindofwinter.org/2003/11/04/a-leave-taking/" rel="nofollow">Swinburne's "A Leave-Taking"</a>. Like the <a href="http://mindofwinter.org/2003/11/09/a-last-word/" rel="nofollow">Dowson poem</a>, this one isn't quite driving at the same thing as Swinburne's poem, but it kept popping into my head during the discussion this evening. Quite distracting, really. Rupert Brooke is in my pantheon of poets, though I wouldn’t consider this his strongest poem. I just wanted to post it because of the superficial sympathies with Swinburne’s “A Leave-Taking”. Like the Dowson poem, this one isn’t quite driving at the same thing as Swinburne’s poem, but it kept popping into my head during the discussion this evening. Quite distracting, really.

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