ENG 253 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Mordecai Richler, Irving Layton, Leonard Cohen
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They say the soul of a dead person will settle like that on the still face. But i thought: the rock has borne this; this butterfly is the rock"s grace, its most obstinate and secret desire to be a thing alive made manifest. I had seen die in the bleak forest. There is no death in all the land, And brought my hand down on the butterfly. And felt the rock move beneath my hand. Are something, are much; yet a poem includes them like a pool water and reflection. In me, nature"s divided things tree, mould on tree have their fruition; Let them swap, bandy, like a flame swerve. I am their mouth; as a mouth i serve. No, not john irving but irving layton - one of canada"s most important - and controversial - poets. He was a jewish writer from montreal, contemporary with mordecai richler, a. m.
