[lbo-talk] Looking for a sailing poem

[Chuck Grimes]

> Surprised there are so few poems of sailing and the sea. You'd think it 
> would be a natural - chicken and garlic; the sea and a poem.
>
> J

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I think it's a matter of matching forms and their ability to scale. The 
ocean is a vast topic that almost demands epic means, say the concept of 
lyrical instead of poetic construction. Primordial forces of nature don't 
compact down easily into a miniture frame. I am aware that poetry can get up 
to that scale, but that's kind of lost art.

Well, its a theory anyway.

CG