Kerouac or Auden?
I'm debating whether to read Scattered Poems by the former or Poems Selected for the latter. But my question really is if you could have lunch with one, whom would you choose?
Auden for me:
The stars are not wanted now; put out every one:
Pack up the moon and dismantle the sun;
Pour away the ocean and sweep up the woods:
For nothing now can ever come to any good.
posted by Basil Epicurus at 11:32 PM
4 Comments:
a more sentimental me had the verse "In the deserts of the heart
Let the healing fountains start,
In the prison of his days
Teach the free man how to praise." up on her wall for years.
he was the shiznit.
That's lovely, I'd never heard it before. I'm going with Auden..Kerouac is so instrinsically American that I'm not sure what I'll make of his poetry. Auden is much more adept at talking about the universal human condition.
that verse was by auden.
I know that...I googled it before I wrote you.
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