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Life, friends, is boring. We must not say so. After all, the sky flashes, the great sea yearns, we ourselves flash and yearn, and moreover my mother told me as a boy (repeatingly) "Ever to confess you're bored means you have no Inner Resources." I conclude now I have no inner resources, because I am heavy bored. Peoples bore me, literature bores me, especially great literature, Henry bores me, with his plights & gripes as bad as Achilles, who loves people and valiant art, which bores me. And the tranquil hills, & gin, look like a drag and somehow a dog has taken itself & its tail considerably away into the mountains or sea or sky, leaving behind: me, wag.


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Although portions of Berryman’s late work are sloppy and erratic these poems help clarify the spiritual struggle that motivates and sustains his best writing. '"Edward Hirsch observed that "the 57 stanzas of Homage to Mistress Bradstreet combine the concentration of an extended lyric with the erudition and amplitude of a historical novel. Philip Levine stated in a recorded interview from 2009 that Berryman took his class extremely seriously and that "he was entrancing.

He was a major figure in American poetry in the second half of the 20th century and was considered a key figure in the Confessional school of poetry. John Allyn Berryman (October 25 1914 – January 7 1972) was an American poet and scholar born in McAlester Oklahoma.

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