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This is a place where my appreciation is sorely lacking, likely because I've been exposed to far too much crappy free verse. I get Williams' red Wheelbarrow, after a fashion. But when I compare Red Wheelbarrow to Ozymandias or Rime of the Ancient Mariner I don't feel like I'm comparing Jackson Pollack with Rembrandt. I feel like I'm comparing fingerpainting with art. I'd be curious to see a "crash course" in modern poetry just so I could decide whether I'm an unedcuated heathen with no appreciation for the finer things or whether I am an educated heathen with no real taste for modern poetry.