Re: Survival langauge

Chess One wrote:

> Purl Gurl wrote:

> > Ironic Nails

> > Oh woe is me for here I pitifully hang
> > On ironic nails of my own double cross.
> > Look upon my wretched soul and so weep,
> > Cry out in pain of knife buried too well
> > In this friendship I give for your keep.
> > Cast your eyes upon this sad face of two,
> > Pity me for my words of bloody treachery.

> it is like blood-in-the-mouth

Very much so. Mine is an allusion to hyprocrisy
being very ironic. A person who is a hypocrite
always hangs himself, in the end.


> Yet I am the necessary angel of earth,
> Since, in my sight, you see the earth again

> Cleared of its stiff and stubborn, man-locked set,
> And in my hearing, you hear its tragic drone

> Rise liquidly in liquid lingerings,
> Like watery word awash, like meanings said

> By repetitions of half-meanings.

Boy, that is a complex one. I will have to digest
this one for a bit of time.

http://www.neh.gov/whoweare/vendler/lecture.html

If you will look at the very bottom of that page, you
will find an interesting analysis by Helen Vendler
of your quoted Wallace Stevens' poetry, along
with a lengthy discussion of Stevens, prior.


Purl Gurl
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