I suppose I just mean it is about itself, so can unsay what it has said, and be in that sense be a deconstruction itself: of closure because e.g. the *epiphany *is that it doesn't make sense, to compare the poet to morning, and we can't say why, only be impressed by the inadequacy of our reaching for closure. On Sun, 9 Sep 2018 at 17:25, Luke <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Hope it's OK to go on. Just thinking if Ashbery is a good example of *deconstructions > *of closure. A little unsure what that word means, despite having read > deconstructive readings of him. I think the beginning of Europe > symbolically compares the poet, writing, to a summer's day, and in doing so > perhaps the parenthetical phrase "cannot understand / feels deeply" > expresses a rejection of closure, reader and writer; we want to immortalize > both but are just left with feelings of depth... > > [image: image.png] > ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the BRITISH-IRISH-POETS list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=BRITISH-IRISH-POETS&A=1