Open Forms Flashcards
Question that elders have
What happened
I grew up reading poetry and liking it but something happened
Med and women who saw what happen
Great disjunction between poetic forms they grew up knowing reading remembering and sudden influx of different shapes on the page
The disjunction was not a disjunction
It was a dialogue in disguise
The powerful ? And convention that modernist poets initiated in the second decade of the ? We’re not ? They were
Fractures of form
Twentieth century
Willful abandonments of what had gone before
Passionate dialogue wit it
Is form fiction?
Which poets have asked
It is a question that goes to the heart of
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Form is and was
This dialogue, this powerful and contentious discussion about ? Far from being ? Is one of the glories of this centuries lit
Relation of reality to expression
Headstrong rejection of the past
Problem is to
It is a discussion of rhythms rhymes stanzas and ?
Catch it and listen to it
Source: the powerful feelings and confusions about identity expression and subject matter that have prompted poets to voice their feelings
Years and Plath are here using traditional stanzas but
Reversing their containment’s with a argument tension and vision
Poetic form is a ? Not a
Continuum
Finished product
Diving into the wreck by
Adrienne rich
Born in ? When
Her work addresses
Baltimore Maryland
1929
Contradictions tensions paradoxes in both ethics and craft
Influenced by
Her first book won
And she wrote in
Ethos of American mid century
Yale younger poets award
Form
In those years she wrote in an essay called ?
Formalism was a part of ? Like? It allowed me to
When we dead awaken
Strategy
Abestos gloves
Handle materials I couldn’t pick up barehanded
Diving into the wreck employs subtle yet fierce ? While elaborating in and subverting ?
Arguments with the poetic tradition
shadows plays and past of canonical power
The speaker has the ? In ?
But the enterprise is
Authoritative tone of speaker in grand tradition
Different