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The Experience of Poetry (1/2): dimming the glare of language
At the moment, while my conscious intentions are directed somewhere completely different, I find myself coming back again and again to the relationship between words and experience. I now feel the...
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Brick-Wall Poetry (1/3): when does a puzzle wreck a poem?
Folk who write poetry are interested in stress-testing the language almost to destruction, to determine the poundage it can bear before it cracks. (From John Glenday‘s Poetry Hero in the Autumn 2011...
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Brick-Wall Poetry (2/3): the skeleton problem
Even with such a lesson before him, how heedless is man! Still do we see his world at war from pole to pole. There is war among the religions; war among the nations; war among the peoples; war among...
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Brick-wall Poetry (3b/3): recovery from an addiction to pronouns anonymous
Language is the medium of the poet. One has only to turn to the words of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá to discover its purpose: “. . . the function of language is to portray the mysteries and secrets of human hearts....
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Brick-Wall Poetry (1/3): when does a puzzle wreck a poem?
Folk who write poetry are interested in stress-testing the language almost to destruction, to determine the poundage it can bear before it cracks. (From John Glenday‘s Poetry Hero in the Autumn 2011...
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Brick-Wall Poetry (2/3): the skeleton problem
Even with such a lesson before him, how heedless is man! Still do we see his world at war from pole to pole. There is war among the religions; war among the nations; war among the peoples; war among...
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Brick-wall Poetry (3b/3): recovery from an addiction to pronouns anonymous
Language is the medium of the poet. One has only to turn to the words of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá to discover its purpose: “. . . the function of language is to portray the mysteries and secrets of human hearts....
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The Experience of Poetry (1/2): dimming the glare of language
My rediscovery of Keats’s close affinity with Buddhism caused me to trawl back through my posts on poetry to see what else I’d written. This pair of posts from 2011 paves the way for my consideration...
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Brick-Wall Poetry (1/3): when does a puzzle wreck a poem?
Folk who write poetry are interested in stress-testing the language almost to destruction, to determine the poundage it can bear before it cracks. (From John Glenday‘s Poetry Hero in the Autumn 2011...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Brick-Wall Poetry (2/3): the skeleton problem
Even with such a lesson before him, how heedless is man! Still do we see his world at war from pole to pole. There is war among the religions; war among the nations; war among the peoples; war among...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Brick-wall Poetry (3b/3): recovery from an addiction to pronouns anonymous
Language is the medium of the poet. One has only to turn to the words of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá to discover its purpose: “. . . the function of language is to portray the mysteries and secrets of human hearts....
View ArticleClik here to view.
Brick-Wall Poetry (1/3): when does a puzzle wreck a poem?
Folk who write poetry are interested in stress-testing the language almost to destruction, to determine the poundage it can bear before it cracks. (From John Glenday‘s Poetry Hero in the Autumn 2011...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Brick-Wall Poetry (2/3): the skeleton problem
Even with such a lesson before him, how heedless is man! Still do we see his world at war from pole to pole. There is war among the religions; war among the nations; war among the peoples; war among...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Brick-wall Poetry (3b/3): recovery from an addiction to pronouns anonymous
Language is the medium of the poet. One has only to turn to the words of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá to discover its purpose: “. . . the function of language is to portray the mysteries and secrets of human hearts....
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The Experience of Poetry (1/2): dimming the glare of language
My recent posts on poetry made it seem worthwhile republishing this pair of posts from 2011. At the moment, while my conscious intentions are directed somewhere completely different, I find myself...
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Brick-Wall Poetry (1/3): when does a puzzle wreck a poem?
Folk who write poetry are interested in stress-testing the language almost to destruction, to determine the poundage it can bear before it cracks. (From John Glenday‘s Poetry Hero in the Autumn 2011...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Brick-Wall Poetry (2/3): the skeleton problem
Even with such a lesson before him, how heedless is man! Still do we see his world at war from pole to pole. There is war among the religions; war among the nations; war among the peoples; war among...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Brick-wall Poetry (3b/3): recovery from an addiction to pronouns anonymous
Language is the medium of the poet. One has only to turn to the words of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá to discover its purpose: “. . . the function of language is to portray the mysteries and secrets of human hearts....
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The Experience of Poetry (1/2): dimming the glare of language
As I am hopefully embarking soon on an exploration of the life and poetry of Sylvia Plath, whose later output was expressed with too much certainty about her toxic inscape, it seems timely to revisit...
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Brick-Wall Poetry (1/4): when does a puzzle wreck a poem?
Folk who write poetry are interested in stress-testing the language almost to destruction, to determine the poundage it can bear before it cracks. (From John Glenday‘s Poetry Hero in the Autumn 2011...
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