Odyssey and Other Poems, 2nd Edition - Joseph F Gabriel

Contemporary poetry is dominated by an adherence to the poetics ofIndeterminacy, in which tuneless chaos prevails over music and meaning.In their determination to subvert the traditional conventions of poetry,contemporary poets dismiss, in their practice, all the time-honored devicesthat make poetry, such as, for example, rhythm and rhyme, symboland song. That is to say, they dismiss Auden's famous formulation thatpoetry is \memorable speech\-a unique and compelling combination ofsound and sense...