The Once Mighty Midway Revisited

"The Once Mighty Midway Revisited" is a short epic poem written in the American tradition. The author appears to pattern himself in the path of Walt Whitman, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and the English poet John Butler Yeats. Wherein he too relies mostly upon iambic pentameter, "free verse" and "enjambment."However what makes him so different and unique is that in comparison to the former, he also appears to be more reflective of many of the Advante Garde poets of the past two...
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"The Once Mighty Midway Revisited" is a short epic poem written in the American tradition. The author appears to pattern himself in the path of Walt Whitman, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and the English poet John Butler Yeats. Wherein he too relies mostly upon iambic pentameter, "free verse" and "enjambment."However what makes him so different and unique is that in comparison to the former, he also appears to be more reflective of many of the Advante Garde poets of the past two centuries, and especially of the Beat Movement and in particular, of Allen Ginsburg.Which is truly ironic since the latter and he could not be more of an "odd couple" than these two in their basic philosophy and polemics. Surely it is truly a strange intersection of the diametrically opposed weltanschauungen of two very disparate souls.Moreover, beyond the "...Mighty Midway('s)..." strong cadence and meter, and poetic schemata: lies a highly reflective, conservative vision of America, in particular, of American Exceptionalism. Of which the author views to be at a crucial and perilous juncture, one in which he sees our future and very existence to be in great and dire jeopardy.Nevertheless, even though the author paints and depicts a rather bleak and pessimistic tableau, he still remains hopelessly optimistic; for it's in his and our American blood and soul to be eternally hopeful of the future and of its redemptive qualities; or simply put, it's in our American DNA, again, to be eternally optimistic. In spite of the very many forces within and without which are determined to destroy us; just as Cato the Elder was of Carthage, for today, instead of Carthago delenda est, it is now America delenda est, again, by enemies both foreign and domestic.The Old Conservative, AKA Sarge