Robert Pack's The long view: essays on the discipline of hope and poetic PDF

By Robert Pack

Robert Pack is a poet, critic, and director of the Bread Loaf Writers' convention. during this quantity he bargains 20 essays at the craft of writing and the character of lyric poetry. He will pay homage to these grasp poets whose excessive achievements have encouraged his personal paintings, and he displays on human mortality and the consolations that support us to outlive - the similar pleasures of poetry, laughter, and song. the 1st component of the ebook contains 3 essays facing the poem as a kind of the doubling of attention, poetic inheritance and the experience of culture, and poetic artwork as a sort of laughter. Pack examines poetic texts as a serious observer, yet ends each one essay with subjective reflections. the second one part includes 14 short essays on a variety of elements of poetic craft, the experience of literary group, the connection among poetry and track, among poetry and technological know-how, among one's psychology and one's mind's eye. casual and anecdotal, those meditations mix literary research and perception with own revelation. The 3rd part consists of 3 essays, all grounded within the author's interpreting of the "Book of Job". the 1st develops a comparability among Darwin's conception of evolution and clone of God as an amoral author within the "Book of Job". the second one lines the impression of the "Book of task" on poems via Blake, Hopkins, Frost, and Stevens. The 3rd explores the subjects of betrayal and nothingness via a longer comparability of the "Book of task" and "King Lear".

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Auden She looked over his shoulder For vines and olive trees, Marble well-governed cities And ships upon untamed seas, But there on the shining metal His hands had put instead An artificial wilderness And a sky like lead. Page 29 A plain without a feature, bare and brown, No blade of grass, no sign of neighbourhood, Nothing to eat and nowhere to sit down, Yet, congregated on its blankness, stood An unintelligible multitude, A million eyes, a million boots in line, Without expression, waiting for a sign.

Auden's poem insists through indirection that the crucial function of the shield is to show us, like a mirror, an image of ourselves as we are in a wholly secular and material world. In doing so, the shield and art itself protect us, not from suffering and death, but from the illusion of false optimism, the temptation of worldly hope. Auden's shield offers us the truth of the destructiveness of human nature and the indifference of the physical universe when they are seen as realities unto themselves.

Auden's shield offers us the truth of the destructiveness of human nature and the indifference of the physical universe when they are seen as realities unto themselves. " Auden, however, in the last stanza tells us that Hephaestos, having completed his work, "hobbled away," as if he has been crippled by the pessimistic vision of life put Page 22 forth by his own art. When Thetis finishes looking at the shield and "Crie[s] out in dismay," she no doubt realizes that the shield cannot save her son and that her hopes for an ordered and beautiful world are vain.

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