ENG 380Y Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Hayden Carruth, Free Verse, Enjambment
13 Sep 2017
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American idiom (language of it, not so much context). Wish fulfilment dream of subject matter structured permanent. Timeline is adamant when it comes to structure. The three men most associated with free verse claims that there is no such things as free verse. The messy raw-edged look is part of the poetry. Williams seems to suggest a new poetic structure as the apparatus that can mend dissociation of sensibility. When a poet begins to devote himself to the subject matter of his poems he has come to the end of his poetic means. There is a difference between essence of poetry and the sense. Let"s forget about the burden, the thought the poem might carry; and let"s recognize the mechanism that can carry the sense, any sense. Think of gertrude stein: to use words as objects out of which you manufacture a little mechanism you call a poem which has to deliver the goods.
