ENGLISH 1A03 Lecture Notes - Richard Wilbur, Intuit
25 Feb 2013
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My love is like a red red rose . Its identifications are governed by a logic that is not immediately evident, though we will intuit at the same time that the metaphor makes sense to us somehow. The act of creating identities between unlike things, seems to evoke the possibility of a world where any identification can be made. After all, if logical plausibility is not a limiting factor, then anything is potentially identifiable with anything else. Break (the impertinence ): the sense of strangeness is itself an end and accomplishment in the poem. It can disturb our sense of what is real and true, and as a result leaves us open to reconstitutions, reformulations and adjustments of perspectives. In an attempt to re-establish order, come to a new sense of what is true and real something we do intuitively we begin to construe the implications of this relation.
