Differentials: Poetry, Poetics, Pedagogy
“Language,” as Eliot’s contemporary Wittgenstein reminds us, “is not con- tiguous to anything else.”^9 And further: “to imagine ...
have made him lose his “sight, smell, hearing, taste, and touch” (line 60). But physical age has no more to do with the things t ...
would meet you upon this honestly”? And what is the relation of rhy thm to the speaker’s identity? To note, as have most of the ...
/ / || / Bitten by ®ies, fought. Lines 3 and 4, with their matched stresses on “hot gates” and “warm rain,” are curiously resona ...
Je n’étais pas au brûlant de¤le Je n’ai pas combattu dans la pluie chaude Ni embourbé dans la saline jusqu’au genou, Levant un g ...
nants.”^18 And Christopher R ick s remark s, “The consciousness in ‘Gerontion,’ is not offered as healthy, sane and wise; who wo ...
more than any other—Jean Verdenal—who had been the friend of his youth in Paris and was killed in action in the Dardanelles. Eli ...
out of poor old Gerontion, is himself a squatter, a victim of poverty, misery, and disease, a ¤gure who, in Julius’s words, “bec ...
too oppressive. But Eliot, a master of vocal registers, now suddenly shifts tone: Signs are taken for wonders. “We would see a s ...
“dull head among windy spaces” that has been our guide thus far, there is no real distinction between these voices. Indeed, the ...
Yet this obvious contrast between contemporary debasement and the Christian Word is hardly the whole story. Indeed, when we read ...
ing the candles,” not, as one might expect, at the church altar, but in “the dark room.” Is it a séance? And who is to be raised ...
cordingly, “The tiger springs in the new year. Us he devours.” But there are other forms of knowledge the poet refused. “Geronti ...
ghostly frozen landscape, the little white gull cannot ¤ght the wind and col- lapses in a mass of “white feathers” in the snow. ...
and antiquated. In this religious void, only “vacant shuttles weave the wind.” And since Eliot can never reveal his real secret ...
In July 2001 I was invited to give a plenary address at the biennial interna- tional Ezra Pound Conference in Paris. It was a pl ...
and Li Po” 42)—is surely compounded by a facet of Pound’s poetry rarely discussed, namely, his curious use of proper names. Cons ...
Late or early coming from Sam-pa, Before you come, write me a letter: To welcome you, don’t talk of distance, I’ll go as far as ...
or cluster... A vortex, from which, and through which, and into which ideas are constantly rushing.”^7 If, as Pound says in “A R ...
Cantos, where it is regularly associated with the neo-Platonic “great ball of crystal” (see esp. Cantos 100, 116), the Plotinian ...
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