Whitman was a great poet, but he's no competition for Roethke.”.
What we need are more people who specialize in the impossible.”Theodore Roethke.
What we need is more
people who specialize in the impossible.- Theodore Roethke.
Roethke has said that these events impacted him deeply
and influenced his work.
Roethke kept both Auden's and Drew's reviews,
along with other favorable reactions to his work.
The lines of a Theodore Roethke poem come to mind:"My eyes, they dazzled at her flowing knees;
Roethke was also a highly regarded poetry
teacher who taught at the University of Washington for fifteen years.
He was probably the best poetry-writing teacher ever," said poet Richard Hugo,
who studied under Roethke and was twice nominated for a Pulitzer.
The problem crystallized one day when he looked out upon a high school class and
was reminded of the final line of the Theodore Roethke poem“Dolor,” which ends with“duplicate grey standard faces.”.
The lines of a Theodore Roethke poem come to mind:“My eyes,
they dazzled at her flowing knees;/ Her several parts could keep a pure repose,/ Or one hip quiver with a mobile nose/(She moved in circles, and those circles moved).”.