A public expectation, it has to be said, not of poetry as such but of political positions variously approvable by mutually disapproving groups.
A public expectation, it has to be said, not of poetry as such but of political positions variously approvable by mutually disapproving groups.
Manifesting that order of poetry where we can at last grow up to that which we stored up as we grew.
Poetry is always slightly mysterious, and you wonder what is your relationship to it.
To begin with, I wanted that truth to life to possess a concrete reliability, and rejoiced most when the poem seemed most direct, an upfront representation of the world it stood in for or stood up for or stood its ground against.
The fact of the matter is that the most unexpected and miraculous thing in my life was the arrival in it of poetry itself - as a vocation and an elevation almost.
In fact, in lyric poetry, truthfulness becomes recognizable as a ring of truth within the medium itself.
Yet there are times when a deeper need enters, when we want the poem to be not only pleasurably right but compellingly wise, not only a surprising variation played upon the world, but a re-tuning of the world itself.
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