i disagree and think the last stanza is as fine as the first three - but
then i always look forward to lawrence's snaps -
- and isn't the analysis there from the start - i read it as an arrangement
of analyses - which makes the intelligence-process implicit in the
arrangement
edmund
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Lawrence, I like this much up to the last stanza - it's very present -
But the end stanza seems to struggle to make an analysis of the poems and
its meaning.
Prefer - I do - to let it be and let me (reader), if I want, to interpret
meaning or process. I like staying with 'the facts' and letting whatever
intelligence (as process) be implicit to their arrangement/revelation in the
poem.
Stephen V
http://stephenvincent.net/blog/
>Thank you very much
>
>L
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>Date: Wednesday, March 22, 2006 9:37 PM
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>This has a very subdued tone - in keeping with the message(s).
>It's lovely.
>
>Tina
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>Sent: Wednesday, March 22, 2006 8:13 PM
>Subject: snap
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>Out the train window
>
>
>It is, I'd say, no longer what I see...
>I find, nowadays, I don't do all that well -
>some blue-topped dwelling packs east of Reading...
>winds of river and several canal gates -
>
>I know where I am. It is familiar -
>spatters of sharp sunshine fill in my sight,
>turning trackside gravel into hard snow,
>and I am lost in that for that instant...
>
>That's another point, isn't it, of course -
>Here are no surprises. It has become dull.
>wishing another journey, some quick way
>
>for the ordinary to be found as still extraordinary,
>composing itself to shocking baggy perception,
>strong hale cognition surpassing itself
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