"if you think childlike, you'll stay young. If you keep your energy going, and do everything with a little flair, you're gunna stay young. But most people do things without energy, and they atrophy their mind as well as their body. you have to think young, you have to laugh a lot, and you have to have good feelings for everyone in the world, because if you don't, it's going to come inside, your own poison, and it's over" Jerry Lewis "I don’t believe in the irreversibility of situations" Deleuze
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Corry,
ReplyDeleteThanks for the comment on my blog.
I was just reading your 'reading'. Or rather, since you are not interpreting it, your 'tracing' of this poem. I think that your poetic reflection on the poem really pays attention to the embodied experience of reading a poem. Noticing how our eyes move back and forth describes visual experience. This is something I think people like me (who is grounded in hermeneutics) forget. Not to mention my students, who still think that to read a poem is to extract information.
When I read the poem, and perhaps its because I didn't read it 'closely' (or far enough?), I didn't notice the 'gap' that you point out. I think the shortness of the poem should have caused me to see/read the gap and ask myself: "Why is that there?" (which, as you say, creates a kind of intense moment). Perhaps this is the power of the poem's sparseness. More words would obscure that gap.
--Jake
. . .I commented on the wrong post. Sorry about that.
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