Two “Comments” by poets appearing in a 1945 “anthology of the war poetry of the 20th century”: Wallace Stevens and Muriel Rukeyser (“civilian poets”). While Stevens seems to be staying on a kind of broad…
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Dislodged Giant: Can We Use Stevens to Interpret Dickinson?
You tell me. “I thought that nature was enough” by Emily Dickinson I thought that nature was enough Till Human nature came But that the other did absorb As Parallax a Flame— Of Human nature…
A Discernment: Frost or Stevens
To ask the question concerning he daemon is to seek an origin of inspiration. Whereas Robert Frost is possessed by an external daemon whose name is Loss, hence the power of Directive, Wallace Stevens undergoes…
Circle and Sway: Reading Williams’ “Flowers by the Sea”
At times the spirit moves one to attempt an explication of a poem, particularly a small one, and a famous one, because one can both grasp the whole and also be somewhat certain of the…
Anecdote of the Jar & Anecdote of Men by the Thousands
An audio recording by Doug Storm of “Anecdote of the Jar” and of “Anecdote of Men by the Thousands” by Wallace Stevens, both from his first book, Harmonium. Anecdote of the Jar (1919) I placed…
Evolving To Heavenly Host
This morning a friend shared a link with me regarding the “good” of science spending as measured against the “evil” of suffering (“With all the suffering…“). Basically, why spend money on “exploration” when so many…
Leaning on Straws: Further Comments on Jon Stewart
Yesterday’s post that centered on Jon Stewart in the hopes of making a larger point about our inability to see just how we are “molded and mollified” by our systems of message conveyance instigated a…