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Poems of the Week
“House Blown Apart Twice” [I-VII] by Star Black
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[Poem of the Week: 5/6/2010]
[Poem of the Week: 5/6/2010]
by Adam Fitzgerald
Academia
Keats Revisited: “It’s Not a Well-Wrought Urn, it’s a Well of Ashes and Wine”
By Adam Fitzgerald
That urn is cold. I find it strange that several poets and scholars speak of the beauty-truth equation as the last lines of the poem. That equation has called forth so much fuss – its bald assertiveness is immensely persuasive at first hearing, then almost instantly the mind rebels against the symmetry of identity.
That urn is cold. I find it strange that several poets and scholars speak of the beauty-truth equation as the last lines of the poem. That equation has called forth so much fuss – its bald assertiveness is immensely persuasive at first hearing, then almost instantly the mind rebels against the symmetry of identity.