About English poetry About English poetry English poetry is beautiful but sometimes it can be a headache. While poems like "Dreams" (Langston Hughes) are easy to appreciate, poems by e.e.cummings and T.S.Eliot are really beyond my comprehension. Some archaic words can not even be found in dictionaries, let alone the words coined by poets themselves. Everytime I come to the poem appreciation section in the exam, I write a lot of nonsense because that I don't really understand the poem. The following poem is from my last exam paper. I stared at it for a long time and couldn't figure out what the poet really wanted to express. Late Air Elizabeth Bishop From a magician's midnight sleeve the radio-singers distribute all their love-songs over the dew-wet lawns. And like a fortune-teller's their marrow-piercing guesses are whatever you believe. But on the Navy Yard aerial I find better witnesses for love on summer nights. Five remote red lights keep their nests there; Phoenixes burning quietly, where the dew cannot climb. Please post your interpretation. It may help me a lot.