week 7

October 10 and 12

WALLACE STEVENS:

• resemblances in nature: relationships, all things resemble each other
• each man resembles all other men, same for years, women, time, etc.
• ex) a river that is so calm it resembles the sky, like a mirror
• imagination is all about how things are 'like' one another

~poetry is the subject:

• a poem isn't what is written on the page- it is the relative order of experience- it gives to it, and makes it something else

Disolutionment of 10 o'clock:

• drunken sailor dreaming is a poet
• he is 'catching tigers in red weather'

animation is a way to make imagination come to life

Wallace was on a crusade with Matt Arnold, his 'right-hand man'

• 'more and more man will discover that it has to turn to the poet to provide us with what we will suffice' ~ the mind is important and needs to find what will content it
• poetry must be living, and change to what is new and modern
• the poet and the musician: "he is the poet, not like the poet"
• English majors deal with fiction, not with what is real

"What you hear is the serenade of a man that plays a blue guitar"