Show this verse Is the very negation of the poetry oi of walt whitman by 0 K X IRTON in illustrated london news read through any collection of free verse published today and count up lip the number of utterances that are concerned with some form of dip taste or even disgust on tile the lines of the old songs of these might be called tile the songs of the seasick ec asick there is nothing in which tho the new poet fancies himself so eo much as in sayin paying 0 like a barmaid at a breakfast that ho 11 0 does not fancy anything there is nothing more notable in his literary experiments than the incessant statement that things obtrude themselves repulsively or look loathsome and unclean now whether wo we think this poetry or the negation of poetry there is no doubt whatever that it is the very negation 0 of walt Whit mans poetry It exists to say the exact opposite sit to what whitman existed e to say in poes poems poe s like tin this s compost whitman said that hint even things r that look dirty to everybody else looked lie healthy althy to him the new poet says that things which look healthy to everybody else look dirty to him |