Hi (again) Grasshopper,
Ooops! After sending my last e-mail I went out for a stroll (chilly, but
there’s no snow blustering around yet) and the thought about what you’re
doing in this poem really struck me. Why didn’t I think it before? I don’t
know...
I guess, in linking Hulme to grain becoming bread, you’re showing Hulme’s
notion of an accidental analogy between the subject of the poem and the
object in the poem. Perhaps what I’m saying about your poem is really what I
think about Hulme’s (most famous) poem – the one Gary posted – and is how I
think Imagism never (for me) managed what it intended. Now I’ve realised
that (!) I guess I want to moderate what I said...
Or say you really ARE thinking “of Hulme” – as a theorist and a poet – AND
showing how his theory works (or, for me, doesn’t work well enough!).
Sorry I missed the subtlety. I guess, like with a lot of modernism, I don’t
get fired up straight away, and sometimes not at all, by what’s going on.
Bob
Now I'll see what google twirls up for Hulme...
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