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ISBN-10: 1139910310
ISBN-13: 9781139910316
This new serious quantity bargains a clean, multifaceted evaluation of Robert Frost's lifestyles and works. approximately each element of the poet's profession is handled: his curiosity in poetics and elegance; his position as a public determine; his deep fascination with technological know-how, psychology, and schooling; his bizarre and tough relation to faith; his investments, as philosopher and author, in politics and struggle; the best way he handled difficulties of psychological disease that beset his sister and of his teenagers; and, eventually, the advanced geo-political contexts that tell a few of his top poetry. individuals contain a couple of influential students of Frost, but additionally such exceptional poets as Paul Muldoon, Dana Gioia, Mark Scott, and Jay Parini. Essays eschew jargon and hire hugely readable prose, delivering students, scholars, and normal readers of Frost a commonly available reference and consultant.
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Denis Donoghue almost touchingly exemplifies this predicament in Ferocious Alphabets,8 where he tries to reinstate the “privilege” of speech using the very vocabulary of the other side. By allowing Derridean terminology to govern his own formulation of allegiance to speech in literature and life, Donoghue thinks he will protect a threatened territory, but he gives up more than he gains. Donoghue calls reading for voice “epi-reading” (not a term likely to appeal to those attached to speaking tones).
Frost moves uncertainly, it would appear, from a feature of the poem – its logic – to the poem itself. Is the poem its logic? The wonder (or confusion) only grows, as it becomes hard to say precisely what “it” is: “It must be a revelation, The Figure Frost’s Prose Makes 27 or a series of revelations, as much for the poet as for the reader. ” We have a careful looseness of grammar, whereby the “its” mill around a bit, like day-laborers looking for work. ” It also accords with Emerson’s advice to Charles Woodbury: “You should start with no skeleton or plan.
He writes as Emerson would have him write: Neither concern yourself about consistency. The moment you putty and plaster your expressions to make them hang together, you have begun a weakening process. Take it for granted the truths will harmonize; and as for the falsities and mistakes, they will speedily die of themselves. If you must be contradictory, let it be clean and sharp as the two blades of scissors meet. (Woodbury 24) Frost operates on “a high plane of wisdom-unwisdom,” or of “humanismunhumanism,” as he often liked to say, where opposed terms indeed merge like the “blades of scissors”: a poet’s immediate interest in “meaning” and 22 Joseph M.
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