I am not sure why but I get this The Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock-ish feeling while reading your poem (it's got to be cause I am reading your poem and Eliot's side by side). I absolutely love it. There isn't anything verbose about it, IMHO. Would definitely love to read some more of your writings. Keep up the good work!

So far, I have learnt three not-so-demanding poems: William Carlos Williams' "The Red Wheelbarrow," Margaret Atwood's "This Is a Photograph of me," and Thomas Sterns Eliot's "Preludes". We read Atwood's poetry at college, and it's been quite a joy to try to memorise the poem. Such a wonderful contrast; sedate words and quite an unfathomable strength coming out of that poem.

I will give it a try about posting updates on the poems and how they affect me. It would be quite an honour to read your poems, because writing/reading poems is as you say a moving and powerful experience, and it gets much better when you share it with others.

Also, I will definitely give it a try and read J. Gilbert's work, because, honestly, this is the first time I've heard of him. Thanks for the recommendation.

Warmest regards.

What I've totally forgot to mention is that I have compiled a list of 94 thematically arranged poems. I will try to memorise these 94 poems in 94 days. Best regards and thanks for the advice.

Finished reading Charles Dickens's David Copperfield. It is 900 pages and enjoyed reading it absolutely. Not my biggest read, since I finished Ulysses last year, and this year George Eliot's Middlemarch (also 900 pages long). Would recommend it wholeheartedly.

I have three of Frost's on my list: The Oven Bird, Design, and the Road Not Taken. Plus, I have all of his poetry just for my personal pleasure at home.

I have added the poems, if you still want to check them out.

I am quite acquainted with the AS literature: Beowulf, Caedmon's Hymn, The Dream of the Rood, etc. We had Anglo-Saxon Literature 101 at college, and it made me love this particularly strange, yet quite likeable language called Old English. I have my Chaucer in the somewhat original Middle English, and it takes quite an effort to read/understand it, without those annotations (which are missing in my paperback). I like this:

I guess I prefer to memorize poetry by ear and mouth than by heart.

Will give my best to try and memorise some of the Mediaeval poetry. (Though, I know the beginning from the Wanderer, Oft to the Wanderer weary of exile / cometh God's pity compassionate love.)

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/tosspot Reading Shakespeare again.