Is the poet of divine creation or is it something else? There are three steps to poetry – paradise lost, the broken world, or expulsion, and recreation, or paradise regained. The beginning is immaculate, and that is what we are supposed to reach. Sentience is only the second step, but you must remember that your head is full of everything.
It Must Change.
Who do you see in your mind's eye when you read these poems? Nanzia Nunzio is one helluva woman. Ozymandias is a poem by Shelley, a man who will never be anything but dust. To find out about her counterpart Inanna, go here, but it's not a link for the faint of heart!
Heraclitus believes that both subjectivity and objectivity are subject to change. One has to wonder if that's what makes him weep over the world. We peer through a glass darkly, but we want nothing more than to see things face to face. Harold Bloom can never forget anything – don't try to tell me that would be a good thing.
When we opened Tanner's eye, we saw that he does not see anything – he stares straight into the void. Three years it took to learn this. “Not a choice between, but of.”
Do not impose with your project. Do not say what you think Sexson wants you to say, say those things that you know now that you didn't know before.
Have you ever had a dream that was so real you were convinced that it happened? I still have some moments in my life that I am not sure are reality; they might be dreams that I forgot that I've dreamt about.
As I am, I am.
All that we have is all that changes constantly; the northern lights. When you ask why you haven't made up your mind about anything, take advice from Stevens and don't. Oh.
All poetry is about all poetry. If we can train ourselves to use flawed words and stuttered sounds, we can do anything. Stevens' epiphanies are only possible with the bread of faithful speech.
On Wednesday, bring a two to three sentence summary of your final project on a slip of paper, and be prepared to talk about it.
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