see the simple five beat lines that could be a lyric in a song. On the other hand Berryman uses lines such as, "All the world like a woolen lover," taken from The Dream Songs. This line is also a five beat line but does not have the same kind of dexterity that Lee has when he is writing his works. I do not agree with Stern on the point of a desperate search for wisdom and understanding, instead I feel as though Lee has an understanding that his words are more powerful when you can lay them flat on the paper and turn them into a revelation of some sort.

Throughout this course we have met many different styles and many different topics, from the nature ridden poems of Scott Momaday to the religious fury of say Robert Lowell's Skunk Hour. Each poet has a different style in which they had either experience in life issues such as Roehtke, Berryman, and Bishop, all manic depressants who's work shows their style. During Bishop's li

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