From Origin to Ecology: Nature and the Poetry of W.S. MerwinFairleigh Dickinson Univ Press, 1999 - 138 pagina's "Frazier examines Merwin's poetry with regard to ecocriticism, anthropology, Merwin's fellow poets, Merwin criticism, and his own essays and interviews. Of central importance is Merwin's indebtedness to Henry David Thoreau, his sense that Thoreau guided American writing in a new direction whereby nature could be seen as something of value for itself."--BOOK JACKET. |
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Pagina 14
... books and the expanding of his subject matter , Merwin has been much more free to experiment with ways of producing a poetry that seeks a greater understanding of living relationships . As a result and 14 FROM ORIGIN TO ECOLOGY.
... books and the expanding of his subject matter , Merwin has been much more free to experiment with ways of producing a poetry that seeks a greater understanding of living relationships . As a result and 14 FROM ORIGIN TO ECOLOGY.
Pagina 15
... living world and his humility in the face of it in Walden and other works correspond to Merwin's approach quite strikingly . Although Thoreau delivers un - Merwin - like transcendental statements and al- though ethical messages ...
... living world and his humility in the face of it in Walden and other works correspond to Merwin's approach quite strikingly . Although Thoreau delivers un - Merwin - like transcendental statements and al- though ethical messages ...
Pagina 18
... living things , and the other that includes this realm as well as all of the " products of human action and intention . " The second definition would not exclude anything in our universe as " unnatural , " not cities nor the waste ...
... living things , and the other that includes this realm as well as all of the " products of human action and intention . " The second definition would not exclude anything in our universe as " unnatural , " not cities nor the waste ...
Pagina 19
... living in the world— even the natural world . Conflicting ideas over nature's restorative powers may even be found within the same volume , but Merwin's trust in the earth increases steadily over time , and it is this impulse that , I ...
... living in the world— even the natural world . Conflicting ideas over nature's restorative powers may even be found within the same volume , but Merwin's trust in the earth increases steadily over time , and it is this impulse that , I ...
Pagina 23
... living being . That the power of origin has an unknown name , that it is a " bright color in darkness , " underscores its enigma and its value ; origin is established as a benificent well from which humans may draw . The narrator ...
... living being . That the power of origin has an unknown name , that it is a " bright color in darkness , " underscores its enigma and its value ; origin is established as a benificent well from which humans may draw . The narrator ...
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From Origin to Ecology: Nature and the Poetry of W. S. Merwin Jane Frazier Geen voorbeeld beschikbaar - 1999 |
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Pagina 26 - And we are enabled to apprehend at all what is sublime and noble only by the perpetual instilling and drenching of the reality that surrounds us.
Pagina 20 - I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.
Pagina 22 - A THING of beauty is a joy for ever : Its loveliness increases ; it will never Pass into nothingness ; but still will keep A bower quiet for us, and a sleep Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing.
Pagina 47 - We must have a turn together, I undress, hurry me out of sight of . the land, Cushion me soft, rock me in billowy drowse, Dash me with amorous wet, I can repay you. Sea of...
Pagina 48 - Smile O voluptuous cool-breath'd earth! Earth of the slumbering and liquid trees! Earth of departed sunset— earth of the mountains mistytopt! Earth of the vitreous pour of the full moon just tinged with blue! Earth of shine and dark mottling the tide of the river! Earth of the limpid gray of clouds brighter and clearer for my sake! Far-swooping elbow'd earth— rich apple-blossom'd earth! Smile, for your lover comes.
Pagina 59 - Land, then, is not merely soil; it is a fountain of energy flowing through a circuit of soils, plants, and animals. Food chains are the living channels which conduct energy upward; death and decay return it to the soil. The circuit is not closed; some energy is dissipated in decay, some is added by absorption from the air, some is stored in soils, peats, and long-lived forests; but it is a sustained circuit, like a slowly augmented revolving fund of life.
Pagina 32 - ... was not corn, and so it was safe from such enemies as he. You may wonder what his rigmarole, his amateur Paganini performances on one string or on twenty, have to do with your planting, and yet prefer it to leached ashes or plaster. It was a cheap sort of top dressing in which I had entire faith. As I drew a still fresher soil about the rows with my hoe, I disturbed the ashes of unchronicled nations...
Pagina 32 - When my hoe tinkled against the stones, that music echoed to the woods and the sky, and was an accompaniment to my labor which yielded an instant and immeasurable crop. It was no longer beans that I hoed, nor I that hoed beans ; and I remembered with as much pity as pride, if I remembered at all, my acquaintances who had gone to the city to attend the oratorios.
Pagina 71 - BEGINNING The moon drops one or two feathers into the field. The dark wheat listens. Be still. Now. There they are, the moon's young, trying Their wings. Between trees, a slender woman lifts up the lovely shadow Of her face, and now she steps into the air, now she is gone Wholly, into the air.
Pagina 32 - Ancient poetry and mythology suggest, at least, that husbandry was once a sacred art; but it is pursued with irreverent haste and heedlessness by us, our object being to have large farms and large crops merely.