lit crit blog: Wednesday, October 22

"We've seen something that makes everything I've ever written look like straw" ~Thomas Aquinas

For Next Exam:

when religion no longer works, we go to the poets

JOHN KEATS:

"In Poetry I have a few axions, and you will see how far I am from their center. I think Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by Singularity" ~Remembrance by Keats
if you are going to make a mistake- over do it! Err on the side of excess
Babe: when the farmer is surprised, he dances when caring for the sick piggy

"and appear almost a Remembrance" to remember is the key, and remember you must have forgotten everything

NORTHROP FRYE:

Forms of nature
"Nature is now inside the mind of an infinite man who builds his cities of out of the Milky Way. This is not reality, but it is the conceivable or imaginative limit of desire, which is infinite, eternal, and hence apocalyptic. By an apocalypse I mean primarily the imaginative conception of the whole of nature as the content of an infinite and eternal living body with, if not human, is closer to being human than to being inanimate." Frye pg 119
Wallace Steven's '13 Ways of Looking at a Blackbird'
"No grave upon the earth shall clip in it a pair so famous. High events as these strike those that make them; and their story is no less in pity than his glory which brought them to be lamented. Our army shall in column show attend this funeral, and then to Rome. Come, Dolabella, see High order in this great solemnity." Last lines from Antony and Cleopatra
Apocalypse: apo- take away, calypse- veil= remove the veil
like removing the mask, curtain, etc to see the man.
OZ-
Apocalypse Now-