From Origin to Ecology: Nature and the Poetry of W.S. MerwinFairleigh Dickinson University 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 25
... leaves open what its significance is . He realizes that the intensity with which he's able to see it is its significance . This is an immense gesture of wisdom in Thoreau that I miss in Whitman.29 Thoreau for Merwin represents the ...
... leaves open what its significance is . He realizes that the intensity with which he's able to see it is its significance . This is an immense gesture of wisdom in Thoreau that I miss in Whitman.29 Thoreau for Merwin represents the ...
Pagina 27
... leaves / beetles are awake eating / upside down in the dark / leaves are awake hearing / in the complete night . " " The " leaves " become tropes for all of the world ; all of nature is cognizant . The night is " complete " like the ...
... leaves / beetles are awake eating / upside down in the dark / leaves are awake hearing / in the complete night . " " The " leaves " become tropes for all of the world ; all of nature is cognizant . The night is " complete " like the ...
Pagina 111
... leaves , the small twigs , and the nests that have been shaken , ripped , or broken off by the fall ; these must be gathered and attached once again to their respective places . It is not arduous work , unless major limbs have been ...
... leaves , the small twigs , and the nests that have been shaken , ripped , or broken off by the fall ; these must be gathered and attached once again to their respective places . It is not arduous work , unless major limbs have been ...
Inhoudsopgave
Acknowledgments | 9 |
Division | 41 |
The Disembodied Narrator | 54 |
Copyright | |
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animals appears Atheneum become beginning belief birds Carrier of Ladders Cary Nelson Christhilf Compass Flower concept consciousness cricket depicts destruction earth Ecocriticism ecological environment environmental essay existence extinction forest garden Gary Snyder Hawaii Henry David Thoreau Houses and Travellers humankind humans Ibid Illinois Press images imagination indigenous interview Jean Follain Kanaloa Keats Kele O Puna land language Lice listening living world loss Maxine Kumin Merwin's poem Merwin's poetry modern Moving Target mystery myth nagualism narrator's Native American native culture Native Hawaiians natural world Opening the Hand original world ourselves pastoral physical planet poems of origin poet poet's present primal prose psychic Rain readers Reprinted Robert Bly sacred Sand County Almanac sense silence Snyder society speaker species spiritual Theodore Roethke things Thoreau totem traditional Trees understanding Unfinished Accompaniment University of Illinois University Press Urbana voice volume W. S. Merwin Wao Kele Wendell Berry Whitman Wild word Writings York