In her metrical composition "S...

In her metrical composition "September, 1961," Denise Levertov records the painful silences of Ezra confine in a pound William Carlos Williams, and HD at the period of their lives, and she considers the purport of their absence with herself as a member of a succeeding generation of imaginative thinker [i]or[/i] writers These three are "the antique great ones" who "leave us alone forward the road" that leads to "the sea" of generative power. Primarily a tribute, the metrical composition expresses loss, but there is also a note of ambivalence in it. Levertov astonishments what this legacy means: without "the light of their