For Leaving Certificate English, Yeats was an automatic choice as one of two poetry questions.
Still, she addresses the dog-poetry question in her essay "Dog Talk": "They are a kind of poetry themselves when they are devoted not only to us but to the wet night, to the moon and the rabbit-smell in the grass and their own bodies leaping forward".
Poetry Quick Question by John Ashbery (Carcanet).
Two hundred dollars bought three Beats, who read poetry, answered questions, played the guitar and, of course, the bongos.
Submissions range from first-person stories, opinion pieces, poetry and question-and-answer pages, to interviews with notables like Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton and the Cheetah Girls.
In contemporary poetry such questions are readily to hand, but they are perhaps less often raised than taken for granted, commonplaces of postmodernity, with concomitant risks of complacency and sentimentality.
One consisted of two people discussing slam poetry, and the question at the end was "is slam poetry a collective activity?" Now, how was the average immigrant from a rural area supposed to know what slam poetry was?
The poems in this book invite young people and adults alike to think about and question poetry and at times inspire them to find out more about Dog-Bone gods and Celtic cauldrons.
No one has ever questioned poetry's gift to express the most outrageous delights of love.
He is our metaphysical poet, using the desiring, sexual body to ask poetry's eternal questions in distinctively contemporary ways.
A favourite device in poetry was the question-and-answer form, employed in the whole poem or only in chosen sections.
