English 2060E Lecture Notes - Passive Obedience, Oil Lamp, Silt
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Fealty to the real is the overriding criterion . [t]he projective mode asks the poet to assume an attitude of passive obedience to the inner and outer experiences that he registers (54). Due to the rejection of craft, the poem, as merrill later suggests, is akin to conversation with all its logical inconsistencies, pauses, hesitations, circumlocutions, and particularity. It lacks what crafted writing normally possesses: in that it is without a sense of one meaning or purpose. She is influenced by his injunctions as well as his poems such as the maximus poems. Marlatt"s poetry in steveston even with its incomplete brackets as the speaker/walker/poet gets sidetracked by words" multiple meanings in addition to their colloquial usages. Take a look at the first poem, imagine: a town . Now, stop and think about the connection that marlatt has just made, the levels she works through in those two lines.
