Word: soul
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Soul on Ice, Cleaver...
...every first-rate soul...
...many other things. Mr. Berryman says that Henry is "not the poet, not me," but we can safely assume that Henry is a projection of Berryman. Indeed one of the major forces behind the Dream Songs is the tension between Henry (Berryman) as subject, poet, public man, and lonely soul. Henry appears as "I," "he," and "you," sometimes he comes in black-face, and once as a sheep...
WHAT IS CLEAR is that Berryman is "tense with love" (279), though "truly isolated, pal," (203). He has wrestled out of himself a "yes" to the world and his own soul, and in the meantime he has created a delightful, profound, and moving poem. What Berryman means to say escapes him, as it must. Like all poets he longs for something he will never find, something he cannot even see. That something fills him with "nostalgia for things unknown" (211), but he knows it is beyond...
...imagine such pranks a Prankster would have to first overcome his own fears, save his own soul, The idea of bringing it all out front is an attempt to examine all the dark corners of one's own soul, to act out one's pent-up hatreds, one's repressed desires, aggressions, fantasies...