/lit/ - Literature

Sorry ignore the post above me

Chaucer, Spenser, Milton, Donne, Pope, Blake, Wordsworth, Keats, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Yeats, Wallace Stevens, Elizabeth Bishop, Larkin, Ashbery, Ruth Stone, Sexton, Strand, Heaney, Glück, Anne Carson, Monica Youn

Some of my favorites: T.S. Eliot, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Sir Philip Sidney, Pessoa, Alonso de Ercilla, Cesar Vallejo, Piero Scaruffi.

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>>20827517
>Monica Youn
Literally who?

>>20827525
>Piero Scaruffi
Kek

His poetry is good, but this is his best work IMO

Yeats explains how he obtained A Vision as follows: "On the afternoon of October 24th, 1917, four days after my marriage, my wife surprised me by attempting automatic writing. What came in disjointed sentences, in almost illegible writing, was so exciting, sometimes so profound, that I persuaded her to give an hour or two day after day to the unknown writer, and after some half dozen such hours offered to spend what remained of life explaining and piecing together those scattered sentences." Yeats spent the next twenty years on this project, and in the end produced a masterpiece which contains an all-encompassing system of symbolism which has geometrical, astrological, psychological, metaphysical, and historical components - a model of the entire universe: "all thought, all history and the difference between man and man."

The problem with trying to read A Vision is that it is incomprehensible to the intellect. The reason for this is that it is a message from the spirit world, and as such it is couched in "spirit language", which is far less linear than human language. A Vision is more like a Bach fugue or a Van Gogh painting - or a poem, if you will - than it is a linear discourse. It means multidimensional things because it expresses feelings rather than concepts.

Yeats' theory of reincarnation as described in A Vision represents a novel view of the subject: that reincarnation does not take place within a matrix of linear time. It's not as if e.g. you had a life in ancient Greece and then you died; then you had a life in ancient Rome and then you died; then you had a life in the Middle Ages and then you died; etc. Rather, all of your past and future lives are going on at once, in an eternal Now moment. The linearity of time is an illusion, a falsehood, which Yeats termed Deception (and which Eastern philosophers term maya or samsara). It is this Deception, the false appearance that there is such a thing as an objective reality out there which is unfolding in linear time, which animates the striving of all sentient beings and keeps the wheel of reincarnation, of life and death and rebirth, turning.

The basic geometrical symbol in A Vision represents the unraveling of time as two interpenetrating, rotating, heliacal cones (which Yeats terms gyres): "Incarnations and judgment alike implied cones or gyres, one within the other, turning in opposite directions." In Yeats' symbolism one of the rotating gyres represents Concord, or unity; the other gyre represents Discord, or desire. "Without this continual Discord through Deception there would be no conscience, no activity; Deception is a technical term of my teachers and may be substituted for `desire'". What is being symbolized by the two gyres is the driving force behind reincarnation - the descent into matter (Discord) and the return to spirit (Concord). By "Deception" Yeats means striving. Striving is not striving after something; desire is not

>>20827517
Spbp

>>20829231
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/58147/blackacre

Pessoa, Whitman, Dante

>>20827517
This nigga blest the only language he speaks just so happened to have produce all of the best poets of all time with no exceptions.

>>20830035

You meant *Yeat right op?

>>20827414
Everyone in Pound's circle except Zukofsky owes him Some kind of debt. Lou and Ez are equals though.