Petit, the Poet Literature and Writing Quotes

Those iambics from line 3 are back again. Without the invigorating power of the breeze, or the influence of the outside worlds, they're quite wee, small, insignificant—not worthwhile. Sorry, lil' guys.

Now here were a couple of poets who knew how to toss a few lines around, are we right? Petit, for one, is a big fan. Interestingly, Whitman was a pioneer of the free verse form, one that Masters himself brought back with Spoon River Anthology. It seems like he's bigging-up Walt here by way of his speaker's praise. Also, he gives props to Homer who, although he wrote in a pretty set form, still managed to pull off The Odyssey and The Iliad—no big deal.