Robert Frost had always said you mustn't think of the last line first, or it's only a fake poem, not a real one. I'm inclined to agree.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I've thought of the last line of some poems for years and tried them out, It wouldn't work because the last line was much too beautiful for the poem.
With me it's the whole thing, it's the conceit, the idea, what the poem is saying. And it goes on just as long as is necessary to say what needs to be said.
After the last line of a poem, nothing follows except literary criticism.
I think that concrete poetry seems to have, as far as I can see, come to a kind of a dead end. It doesn't seem to be going any further than it went in its high period of about five or six years ago.
I don't see that a single line can constitute a stanza, although it can constitute a whole poem.
It hardly seems worthwhile to point out the shortsightedness of those practitioners who would have us believe that the form of the poem is merely its shape.
I do think that all of us think in poems.
Frost isn't exactly despised but not enough people have worked out what a brilliant poet he was.
Frost is the most sophisticated of poets.
The only thing you can really say in a poem is what you really, really deeply believe.