File spoon-archives/phillitcrit.archive/phillitcrit_1997/phillitcrit.9711, message 489


Date: Mon, 10 Nov 1997 00:13:04 -0500
From: George Trail <gtrail-AT-UH.EDU>
Subject: Re: PLC: Song of Myself



>
>George,"I lean and loafe at my ease observing a spear of summer grass."
>The 1000 acres, the earth. The vastness. It is every where, inspiration but we
>must journey out and find it. It could be as big as the earth, or as
>focused as
>a blade of grass.

No. We are right there. The grass is everywhere, It is a univeral symbol.
the spear is the spear through the side of the savior whose blood redeems
the world,  stanza 6, lines 86 to the end. See my WWR article on this
"spear" invocation.
>

>> Line 3, note the "get _at_"
>
>To get at the depth of ourselves, the passionate depth, our life's essence?

[No. "get at" is not "good English." What are you trying to 'get at.' is a
vulgarism. W employs the crude form deliberately.
>
>> I will teach you that you (count the "yous" in this slice, note the last
>> word of the whole poem) are the origin of all poems, and there is no single
>> Platonic sun, i.e., no "one" truth.
>
>"I stop somewhere waiting for you."

Yes, we are the origin of all poems, and
>after death, someone else continues the lyrics of life, of ourselves, of
>themselves, and on, and on.

Again (sorry) no. It is a Buddhistic concept. You can't flunk this course.
You will take it again and again until you enounter me, who is stopped
"somewhere" (the where you will finally discover) "waiting" for
you--because, after all, there is all the time in the universe.
>
>Yes, the sun is truth, light. Sun light is a metaphor for truth as the sun
>rising or the eastern sun is for life, rebirth. Setting sun is death, sleep,
>et. Yes I love all this. I was baffled as to the meaning of the sun, but I
>knew
>it had an exact meaning. I should have seen this.
 [No, again, It is _less_ than that. Note W's "the last scud of day holds
back. . . I shake my locks at the runaway sun." Limit the image. don't pile
on. It is a very precise poem. Check all of the sun images--Walt did.
>
>> That's a start.
>
>Yes, I want more! LOL
>
>Can I spin the wheel again?

I guess you did.

g




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