![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Of course, any kind of “liked” is better than “disliked,” but a poem of that kind – forgettable – is not going down on your list of Poems to Memorize In Case of Shipwreck on a Desert Island. The poem was liked but, as the salesman Willy Loman would warn us, it wasn’t well-liked. Or maybe in the New Yorker? The Threepenny Review? – so you look through old copies of your magazines, you try to track the poem down online, but it’s gone. ![]() You try to find the poem in a book, but you can’t find it – Maybe it was in a book from the library. Female poet, early 20th-century…British? Canadian? Down the line you hear the poet’s name and it sounds familiar to you – I read something by her not too long ago and liked it. You have only a vague sense of what the poem was about – A n animal, I think? A duck? You have only an inkling as to the author. The striking features you were drawn to – the metaphors that stopped you in your tracks, the music of the words, the phrases you never imagined bumping up against each other – fade from your memory, though you know you liked many of them when you first read them. Sooner or later – for me, lately, it’s sooner – you can’t remember much about them. You like or dislike them, you share them – or you mean to share them but never get around to it. ![]()
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