Poets ThinkingPoetry 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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... Wheel , " the difference between describing the world when one is emotionally distant from it and describing it when one has “ ef- fused " oneself into it and devised new language for it from that fu- sion . Far from being the monster ...
... wheel occur in the only line from the original scene which is preserved in identical form in the second part . This single instance of identical repetition calls our attention to the fact that the rest of the second scene is not mere ...
... Wheel ” ) , but he will drop that distance in the reprise , when he " effuses " himself into the domestic group and es- pecially into the mother . Whitman's own aesthetic thinking is par- titive , deciding the degree to which the poet ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Alexander Pope Thinking | 10 |
Walt Whitman Thinking | 37 |
Copyright | |
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