LIT 20600 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Money Bill, Seashell, Edith Tiempo
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April 22, 1919 august 21, 2011. Poet, iction writer, teacher, and literary critic. When love is great, when love is profound, it becomes more diicult to control. And in the hands of people who are unable to control it, love overwhelms the person. This is the destructive nature of love which is why the award-winning poet edith tiempo, in her poem bonsai, scaled down love into a cupped hand size. The poem is an example of a work that is objective-correlative wherein the ideas depicted are abstract. In this work of literature, love is the abstract idea. It was like saying often one remembers a lover but there are times when he does not. Tiempo even made love familiar and within reach by reducing it to things that people use and hold dear such as son"s note, or dad"s gaudy tie,/ a roto picture of a young queen/ a blue indian shawl, even/
