Simple verse does not imply that the poems you will be reading in this book deal with trivial matters – nothing worth writing about is trivial. It means that the language used is not complicated. If you compare the next two examples on the subject of the end of the world you will see what I mean. The first one is the beginning of Gerard Manley Hopkins’s “Spelt from Sybil’s Leaves”. the second is Robert Frost’s “Fire and Ice”.
EARNEST, earthless, equal, attuneable, ' vaulty, voluminous, … stupendous Evening strains to be tíme’s vást, ' womb-of-all, home-of-all, hearse-of-all night.
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