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[maryfordummies]

This is a desperate plea from a poor ignorant environmental science major to all her terribly intelligent and well-read English major friends. I need to find a poem about poetry for a paper I am writing. Any ideas?

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[smokingguncafe]

A poem ABOUT poetry?

Try this little gem, if it isn't the teacher's example already: http://www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/549.html

[maryfordummies]

Thank you so much! This was exactly the kind of thing I was looking for.

[gybefan2000]

- Archibald Macleish "Ars Poetica"
- Marianne Moore "Of Modern Poetry" or something like that
- maybe Wallace Stevens "The Idea of Order at Key West"

[gybefan2000]

p.s. links:

http://www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/1169.html
http://www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/188.html
http://www.cscs.umich.edu/~crshalizi/Poetry/Stevens/The_Idea_of_Order_at_Key_West.html

[maryfordummies]

Wow. Thank you so much. You really just completely saved my (academic) life.