Tuesday, June 10, 2008

Great Regulars: The castle is an archetypal image

that, in this narrative, serves to settle the poet's turmoil: it is not the "dark tower" of romantic quest or challenge but a solid presence, a marker of a boundary safely crossed, more trustworthy than the later pink glow of "sunlight from no sure source."

[by Roy Fisher]

The Running Changes

from Carol Rumens: The Guardian: theblogbooks: Poem of the week

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