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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... mother , a son , and three daughters ) has sent its son to the war . Life at the farm has gone on as before until the day a letter comes from the son , Pete ( " his name is signed " ) . The eldest daughter , " just- grown❞ — who has ...
... mother ( dearest mother ) , by the mother's reference to the son as our dear son , and by the narrator's reference to the affection between mother and son , her ( not their ) dear dead son . The mother , upon the death of her son , no ...
... mother . Whitman's own aesthetic thinking is par- titive , deciding the degree to which the poet will " infuse " himself into any scene or part of a scene . It is also reticent ; it does not tele- graph its own procedures . Much is left ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Alexander Pope Thinking | 10 |
Walt Whitman Thinking | 37 |
Copyright | |
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