ah, neatly put, as always with her, Joseph.
hard, flaming, etc....
Doug
On 4-Jun-07, at 7:25 PM, Joseph Duemer wrote:
> I wanted to drop this into the mix regarding the "lyric I,"
> impersonality,
> abstraction, etc. Here is a poem by Laura
> Riding<http://www.unc.edu/%7Eottotwo/partner.html>
> :
>
> *AS TO A FRONTISPIECE*
>
> If you will choose the portrait,
> I will write the work accordingly.
> A German countenance
> I could dilate on lengthily,
> Punctilio and passion blending
> To that slow national degree.
>
> Or, if you wish more brevity
> And have the face in mind –
> A tidy creature, perhaps American –
> I could provide a facile text,
> The portrait being like enough
> To stand for anyone.
>
> But if you can't make up your mind
> What poetry should look like,
> What name to call for,
> I think I have the very thing
> If you can read without a picture
> And postpone the frontispiece till later.
>
> That is, as you may guess,
> I have a work but, I regret,
> No preliminary portrait.
> Yet, if you can forgo one,
> We may between us illustrate
> This subsequent identity.
>
> --
> Joseph Duemer
> Professor of Humanities
> Clarkson University
> [sharpsand.net]
>
>
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