“I would talk in iambic pentameter if it were easier.”
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I do insist on making what I hope is sense so there's always a coherent narrative or argument that the reader can follow.
The nice thing about the Bible is it doesn't give you too many facts. Two an a half lines and it tells you the whole story and that leaves you a great deal of freedom to elaborate on how it might have happened.
I've never read a political poem that's accomplished anything. Poetry makes things happen, but rarely what the poet wants.
I think there was a revolution in poetry, associated chiefly with Eliot and Pound but maybe it is of the nature of revolutions or of the nature of history that their innovations should later come to look trivial or indistinguishable from technical tricks.
