Poets Thinking: Pope, Whitman, Dickinson, YeatsPoetry has often been considered an irrational genre, more expressive than logical, more meditative than given to coherent argument. And yet, in each of the four very different poets she considers here, Helen Vendler reveals a style of thinking in operation; although they may prefer different means, she argues, all poets of any value are thinkers. |
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... man's " ) . A poem can be more lighthearted than the usual " thinking " process ; it can be satiric , or frivolous , or mischievous . High seriousness may attend it — or may not . Bizarre imaginative fantasies may be what a poem has to ...
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