[lit-ideas] Influence
- From: "Lawrence Helm" <lawrencehelm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "Lit-Ideas " <Lit-Ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2015 08:41:38 -0700
Stevens was influenced by Whitman
Or so Bloom says though Stevens
Never read Whitman or so he said.
With this being insisted, most of
Which I don't recall how can
I be sure? I was told Leopardi
Is like me - a gentle way
Of saying I am like him,
But I don't read Italian and
Don't recall reading a translation;
So I bought the text by Galassi.
I don't see myself in Whitman
Stevens or Leopardi. In one sense
I am more warlike but in another
They assert themselves
More than I ever would, not
Caring that much for the world
Nor what it thinks, mistrusting
Whatever is current or
Believed, even my denial
That I have been infected.
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