04-18-2021, 02:48 AM
on topic: he makes the greatest demands on reader than any other poet*; when he got old he was obsessed with money. Read that somewhere. Who doesn't get obsessed with something when they get old. money is an odd choice for a poet though.
off topic: Cemetery experiment report no. 1: I've read the Stevens poem twice. Gotta say it's like reading razor blades. Next to Ode, which I've now read again, to begin the experiment, which is like reading axe blades. *and it occurs to me that my experience with Stevens contradicts that statement in spades.
off topic: Cemetery experiment report no. 1: I've read the Stevens poem twice. Gotta say it's like reading razor blades. Next to Ode, which I've now read again, to begin the experiment, which is like reading axe blades. *and it occurs to me that my experience with Stevens contradicts that statement in spades.