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Deep feeling doesn't make for good poetry. A way with language would be a bit of help.

Thom Gunn poetry

There have been two popular subjects for poetry in the last few decades: the Vietnam War and AIDS, about both of which almost all of us have felt deeply.

Thom Gunn poetry vietnam

It was difficult being a teacher and out of the closet in the '50s. By the time I retired, the English department was proud of having a gay poet of a certain minor fame. It was a v…

Thom Gunn change time proud

My old teacher's definition of poetry is an attempt to understand.

Thom Gunn poetry understand old

I had assumed that I would age with all my friends growing old around me, dying off very gradually one by one. And here was a plague that cut them off so early.

Thom Gunn friends me

As humans we look at things and think about what we've looked at. We treasure it in a kind of private art gallery.

Thom Gunn think look treasure

I was at a benefit for some imprisoned students in the '60s at San Francisco State, and there were lots of poets reading for the benefit: one was Elizabeth Bishop.

Thom Gunn

I don't know how to sit outside myself and test against a hypothetical self who stayed home.

Thom Gunn

We learned in the university to consider Wordsworth and Keats as Romantics. They were only a generation apart, but Wordsworth didn't even read Keats's book when he gave him a copy.

Thom Gunn

I work best in rhyme and meter. I was most confident of myself in that way.

Thom Gunn

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Unscramble THOM 4-letter words that start with T 4-letter words that end in M 4-letter words containing HO 4-letter words containing OM 4-letter words with T and H

Poet’s word, with inverted comma, for the end of the day

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Hint 1 meaning

The old plural of Eye.

Hint 2 anagram

ENE

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AND STILL ___

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