Tuesday, February 13, 2007

Great Regulars: Poems do not come marked F major

or B minor. Because there is no face-to-face context to determine exact significance, poetic language is bound to be more ambiguous than speech. What you hear as absurdly grandiloquent is passionately persuasive for me.

from Terry Eagleton: The Times: How to Read a Poem: Part Four

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