The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1904-06-16
AN INTERESTING PAPER
As Read by Miss lorna Jean
Warren Class of 'O4

prove why America has not pic juced d
classic poet. TIE ladder of arr must
by the wall; influence and experience
will represent the weather; the p'a;ts
the ivy.
Ensland's Firth dates lack years
before TIE time OF Caesar. the people
were suoersiitious and from beng con-
uuered by other nations. le-lons ANA
traditions spranr W. There was TO
| lite allure in England at this tine. but
e adually civilization crept In and
| literature was given a place. A thou
sand and more of yeas after England
produced the CLASSIC poets, among the
first end best were shakespeare and
Milton. These men had themes for
poetry. influence of TIE earliest writ
ers. Those inferior tiers before them
had prpared the way for them By CIV
ing them their knowledge and exper-
'ence.
America is comparatively a new
country 1t has been less than five
hundred years since the country was
discove ed BY this time all the tradi-
tons and legends of England and
Greece had been written anc re- w It
tell in poetry by the poa's " Engiand
Greece and other nations. Th
try is not yet old enough To give
themes for poetry. The poets OF
America rad no Influences o. cxpe'
fences to help them. 1t is our pat
riotism which makes IS love on. poets
and revere them more than Milton OF
Wordsworth. But in TIE aourje of a
thousand years when the stories Of The
early life of the American people and
to be mere facts ard are REGARDED '.s
myths; when we will our Olympus
Venus and our Gods. req eTented by
the great men and women of u times:
when Washington is to us as Jup9:er
was to the Greeks, and with the IN
fluence and experience of early Amer
lean poets for example n lessons
probably then America will produce
the greatest poets Of the world pos
sessing all the recui. ements for cl,ss c
poetry.
The three fequis' ties for classic poetry
are: First, high seriousness or deer
thought; secondly, o and thirdly
LAST imp ession. Milton and Word
werth are probably anon the b Isl
Engliyh examples having the frs
requisite, high seriousness. On lookii's
over the works of S~hakespea~e. Words
wo tn end Milton we find none mere
worthy of quoting han Millions ~
Penseroso."
Hence, vain delud'ng joys.
The brood of folly without father
bred!
Dwell i. some idle brain,
And faneies fond with saudy shapes
posses
As II X and nur'tA-',es
AS the gay notes that people the
sun hea:,s,
Or likest Rove ing Dreams"
Or Wordswarth's "Intim'dations Of
Immortality from Recollections OF
"a ly Childhood"
Our birth is but a sleep and a fol-
getting:
The soul that rises with US. our llfe's
star,
Hath a elsewhere It's settling
And cometh from afar:
Not in entire 70 ~etfulness
And not in utter nakedness
But trailing clouds OF glory do VIC
come
From Cod. who is our home.
Heaven les about US in our infancy!'
In all lite allure there are no n
full OF greater seriousness than these
Shakespear, Wordsworth and Mlton's
wo ks abound with such verses. IL
these verses we find that deep thought
which is so impressive. They hav.
delved to such a depth hat n usually
reads and re-reads them %untiringly
10 gain Their real value end hidden
meaning.
Among the American poets, who
have this requisite we find Bryant
alone. We prove Bryant possesses this
requis't tie by a quotation from Than
otopsis."
ITO Kim, who in the love of nature
holds
Communion with her visible 70 ms,
she speaks
A various language, for his gayer
hours
She has q voice of gladness. a smile
And elocuence of beauty, and she
gl'des
Into his his darker musing, with a
mild
And healing sympathy. that steals
away
Their sharpness. ere ne is aware.
When thoughts
OF the last bitter hour come like q
blight
Ger thy spirit"
1T a the first adequate poetic