Letter to Denise by Hayden carruth
Is the style of the poem romantic(American or British)?
Or it’s probably neither. I just don’t understand what style it could be.
<<characteristics of Romantic literature include a focus on the writer or narrator's emotions and inner world.>>
from the poem: You meditated, looking at a stone until You knew the soul of the stone? Inwardly I Scoffed, being the backwoods pragmatic Yankee That I was, yet I knew what you meant. I Called it love. No magic was needed. And we
Loved each other too, not in the way of
Romance but in the way of two poets loving A stone, and the world that the stone signified.