tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4751850602006071202.post7260526183302702255..comments2024-02-19T20:45:03.110-05:00Comments on Red Mug, Blue Linen : Come, sweet rainLaurenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17972899387484460347noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4751850602006071202.post-18258522846437485092011-11-20T16:44:35.068-05:002011-11-20T16:44:35.068-05:00Cher Lucien, I'll be sorry for the entry's...Cher Lucien, I'll be sorry for the entry's failure to integrate itself for you, but it will be plainer why I do not share your complaint, when you reckon what is being illustrated, which is the entire entry: argument+evidence. The argument plainly casts the imagery which you find within the poem, as its conduct as a poetic figure, and this is a mode of expression common to O'Hara. Thus blueness of time becomes blueness of space, the sector of reading but also of making a writing; I could have depicted the last image in the poem; but the bewildering embrace is plain enough, in the vastness of its reach, but which illustrates not the tortoise or the concupiscence of the porpoise, but the élan of these images depict, which is one of consecration in sweet rain, from the point of view of poetry. I will hope to do better, in argument depicting art and in illustration's association with whatever is in the field at the time.Laurenthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17972899387484460347noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4751850602006071202.post-12404505223110487862011-11-20T15:50:13.861-05:002011-11-20T15:50:13.861-05:00i find today the illustration far out ways the poe...i find today the illustration far out ways the poem - its a bit too full of puffery - while the last image speaks loudly in itself of pure power for powers sakeLucienhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16749073528569025228noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4751850602006071202.post-59284610134467064172011-11-20T14:13:24.126-05:002011-11-20T14:13:24.126-05:00Yes, I felt bad about subjecting it to illustratio...Yes, I felt bad about subjecting it to illustration - but not bad enough, to fail to acknowledge its derivation and vitality. I'm very grateful for some of its phrases but rather nearly ravished by how they hold together. I'm sorry he is so recent; in another 4 or 5 generations .. appraisal will have slowed down.Laurenthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17972899387484460347noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4751850602006071202.post-13669499389080872392011-11-20T12:33:14.072-05:002011-11-20T12:33:14.072-05:00lovely poem, especially today.lovely poem, especially today.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com