[lit-ideas] meaning inside poetry
- From: Eric Yost <mr.eric.yost@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 01:32:51 -0400
A quote philosophers may find interesting.
"In what Richard Wilbur has called the 'mad
_instead_' of poetry, things have their meaning
only within the context of the world that they
create. The world of the poem is analogous to the
existential world, but not identical with it."
"This truth -- that we live in the poem's world,
not it in ours -- applies not only to 'symbolic'
poems."
[from Helen Vendler's introduction to _The Harvard
Book of Contemporary American Poetry_ pages 8 and 9.]
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