Each of us will be assigned a poem to recite for the class. As long as you do it, and understand the poem as being chosen out of desire, we will be happy.
Is is possible to enjoy a poem without understanding it?
Things are patient – you leave the house and are gone all day, and the coffeepot is always exactly where you left it.
Stevens is looking to build the impossible possible philosopher's man. Not looking at the mythological context so much as the scene and how the imagination came up with it.
Start thinking about what your project is going to be and how it ties in with Lucretius and Stevens. You can do whatever you want, but it should involve words somehow, because it won't be gradable otherwise.
Blog, blog, blog! It doesn't matter what to say, as long as you just say something.
In the bible is a book called Proverbs. Most people can remember proverbs because they are written to be memorable. Take these for example:
“Life is an affair of people, not places.
But for me,
Life is an affair of places
And that is the problem.”
“There is only the weather.”
“The collecting of poetry
For one's experience
As one goes along
Is not the same as merely writing poetry.”
You may want to read the poem The Motive for Metaphor. Stevens belonged to a group of poets called the imagists; their motto was “no ideas but in things.” Umbrellas are trees.
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