How is it that when we read, 'Let each new hero come', we know that it is Seamus Heaney? Or what about 'the blossom of light'? What makes that so obviously Mary Oliver? Harold Bloom said that to understand the meaning of a word as a poet uses it, we must be familiar with all of their writing, to see how the word gets meaning in the way that poet uses it.
What marks a poet out? Vernacular rhetoric
What marks a poet out? Vernacular rhetoric
What marks a poet out? Vernacular rhetoric
How is it that when we read, 'Let each new hero come', we know that it is Seamus Heaney? Or what about 'the blossom of light'? What makes that so obviously Mary Oliver? Harold Bloom said that to understand the meaning of a word as a poet uses it, we must be familiar with all of their writing, to see how the word gets meaning in the way that poet uses it.