Monday, January 29, 2007
Thursday, January 25, 2007
Poem that replaced a mountain assignment
The Poem That Took The Place of a Mountain by Wallace Stevens
"There it was, word for word,
The poem that took the place of a mountain."
These two lines represent the actual or concrete as well as the imaginative forms of expression often found in duality writings. The term "mountain" in poetry, and other artistic expressions, represents a challenge that one must overcome in order to gain a perspective or hindsight. The mountain is an obvious choice, offering a challenge in the climbing and the reward of a view (perspective) once at the top. In the case of Stevens' prose he is implying that the mountain is not the tangible rock formation we know, but an imaginative struggle or journey. Paving the way for the poem to be the concrete example. In it's simplest form, the words of the poem showed the same challenge, struggle, and perspective that the mountain represents. The difference being that the poem is there, in the readers hands, and the answer lay in the words waiting for their mind to unlock it. It is with that understanding that the title of the poem rings true.
Charles Tewalt
English 121W-12
Wayne Berg TA
"There it was, word for word,
The poem that took the place of a mountain."
These two lines represent the actual or concrete as well as the imaginative forms of expression often found in duality writings. The term "mountain" in poetry, and other artistic expressions, represents a challenge that one must overcome in order to gain a perspective or hindsight. The mountain is an obvious choice, offering a challenge in the climbing and the reward of a view (perspective) once at the top. In the case of Stevens' prose he is implying that the mountain is not the tangible rock formation we know, but an imaginative struggle or journey. Paving the way for the poem to be the concrete example. In it's simplest form, the words of the poem showed the same challenge, struggle, and perspective that the mountain represents. The difference being that the poem is there, in the readers hands, and the answer lay in the words waiting for their mind to unlock it. It is with that understanding that the title of the poem rings true.
Charles Tewalt
English 121W-12
Wayne Berg TA
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