By: Tim

Tim — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 07:56:59 +0000

We were thinking the same thing when it came in, actually — it’s hard to publish another dead doe poem after Stafford, but heck if this one ain’t better than his!

I’ve never read the Millay… I think everyone’s got a deer poem. I’ve got one myself. Why is that? They represent a lot of things that are important to us, and dying, I think.

By: Anoth R. Poet

Anoth R. Poet — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 03:44:39 +0000

Dare I say it? I think I like this poem better than William Stafford’s “deer poem” – Traveling Through the Dark – here’s the link if you want to compare the two poems:

http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/
~richie/poetry/html/poem185.html

I note that Stafford’s poem is in 4 quatrains and 1 couplet – and Macker’s is all one stanza – 22 lines (if I counted correctly – hey, it’s almost midnight here!) – i.e., sort of like 5 quatrains and and 1 couplet, all pushed together, if you want to look at it that way.

Well, I’m just rambling-analyzing (ramblyzing?) here – but the deer in Macker’s poem is so present in its death – the neck fur rising in the wind – and in Stafford’s poem, there’s more intellectual distance, more thinking.

While I’m on the subject of other poems – check out Edna St. Vincent Millay’s “deer poem” – Buck in the Snow -

http://www.bluffton.edu/courses
/tlc/bandishc/bbpoems/poem6.htm

Well, back to my own poem!

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