Sanctuary
Sanctuary in Elizabeth Park (for Wallace Stevens) Scholars, factors of first ideas, rummagethe park like a memory, frisking old bushesfor pluperfect tropes, trampling fernsand fluttering ducks off the...
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I love the first 6 lines -- it's funny picturing the scene literally. After that, I'm a little lost. All those nouns and adjectives -- I feel verb-starved. Also, is there a reason for all that...
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R-Hesitated about posting "Sanctuary" because it is both an in-group and local poem. (Stevens haunted Elizabeth Park in my neighborhood.) Nowadays there is an annual walking tour, and scholars do poke...
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bill--nothing against the first four lines except that the poem is a whole lot more Stevens-like after "Searching for signs." You've got some great phrases in this. The verb forms are a bit...
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I must be a constitutional eiron, tweaking the faithful, but the ironic discrepancy between the professorial probers and the guy who was "in my being too closely pent" was irresistible.Cf. WS poem...
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