“Mr. Ransom turns to lycidas, whose prosodic irregularities have long been recognized” ransom lacks strong emotional perception in his poems noticed by Thornton H. Parsons (Justus 418). Ransom stylistically maintained a proper aesthetic distance through poetic irony, tone, and diction. In a poem almost anonymous Mr. Ransom writes about how he’s almost disturbed by three irregularities he finds in Milton’s poetry. Unequal stanzas, unrhymed lines scattered throughout, and the character of digressions which interpret the logical structure of the poem (Martin 223). One review from Thornton H. Parsons was a review of Ransoms poetic balance. Ransoms “is a poetics of voluntarily incurred disadvantages” a happy term, but we later learn that poetics