Organic poetry

In the foreword of On Poetry and Craft, Ted's views on how to revise poetry makes one look at a poem like an organic whole.

Carolyn Kizer refers to her poem The Great Blue heron revised by Roethke.

Poets Roethke admired - Louise Bogan, Leonie Adams, Ruth pitter

In The Heron, I like
The wide wings flap but once to lift him up, at once taking away the power from the heron described till now.