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...before the English concentrators in the audience begin to rant over these naive poetic presumptions, I will remind myself just in time that great poetry extends beyond merely the spontaneous overflowing of powerful feelings and into a realm where form nearly always matters. "There are many people who appreciate the expression of sincere emotion in verse, and there is a smaller number of people who can appreciate technical excellence," T.S. Eliot once wrote, as though speaking directly in Hollander's defense...
...becoming more real than life itself, turning life into a void emptier even than art. Describing an image in a Arachne's web, Hollander claims "That image of her seemed, for too long a moment,/To be even more real than she was herself." Searching for the deepest realm of truth, he moves into layers of representation, "the metaphor within the metaphor,/The thing itself, that very thing" and finds himself caught in a downward spiral of artifice in attempts to locate truth and the perfect language...
...perfect time for celebrating, reading, and experiencing poetry. So take advantage of the warming weather by strolling to the Grolier Poetry Bookstore, buying a book of poems from anywhere around the world, "flinging the emptiness out of your arms" and living for a few moments in an ethereal realm where language, meter and emotion meld in the surprising harmonies of poetry...
...perfect time for celebrating, reading, and experiencing poetry. So take advantage of the warming weather by strolling to the Grolier Poetry Bookstore, buying a book of poems from anywhere around the world, "flinging the emptiness out of your arms" and living for a few moments in an ethereal realm where language, meter and emotion meld in the surprising harmonies of poetry...
...merely in our academic relationships that many seem to have lost our sense of wonder, but also in our personal lives and romantic relationships. In our interaction with others and the world around us, we too infrequently remember to appreciate what is special and extraordinary in these realms, perhaps because we are dissatisfied with anything less than an unrealizable, theoretical ideal. Romantic pursuits, in their early stages at least, are inherently a realm of uncertainty and exploration, yet we often try hard to mask our vulnerability and instead feign a calm suavity, or play hard to get. In striving...