Poets ThinkingPoetry has often been considered an irrational genre, more expressive than logical, more meditative than given to coherent argument. And yet, in each of the four very different poets she considers here, Helen Vendler reveals a style of thinking in operation; although they may prefer different means, she argues, all poets of any value are thinkers. |
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... Circus Animals ' Desertion , " written in 1937 or 1938 when Yeats was seventy - two or seventy - three . He was to die at the beginning of 1939 . Yeats's images usually appear to him in the form of Blakean antinomies or opposites . They ...
... Circus Animals ' Desertion . " If the earlier poem was precipitated by aging , heartbreak , and the specter of sexual impo- tence , " The Circus Animals ' Desertion " was prompted by Yeats's fear that he could no longer summon and ...
... Circus Animals ' Desertion " is peculiarly structured through its three Roman numerals . It has a one - stanza overture at the beginning , a one - stanza coda at the end , and a middle made up of three stanzas . The overture tells us ...
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Introduction | 1 |
Alexander Pope Thinking | 10 |
Walt Whitman Thinking | 37 |
Copyright | |
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