by gsfrnkln | Apr 18, 2023 | Uncategorized
The image is at the heart of poetry. Without the image, there can be music on the one hand and speech on the other, but not poetry. This is because poetry originates in the human impulse to control the uncontrollable by recreating it. Examples are the cave art that...
by gsfrnkln | Jul 17, 2022 | Uncategorized
There is a widely held view that the translation of poetry is doomed from the beginning. Frost left us his famous line that poetry is what is lost in the translation, and Hannah Arendt wrote of Auden that she knew he was a great poet because his work did not...