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"A Brilliantly Wry Poem About Poetry"
Carol Rumens explores "House," where Robert Browing expresses his "opposition to autobiographical and confessional genres. At the same time, it can hardly fail to remind us of Browning’s devotion to the dramatic monologue. This adds a pleasurable layer of irony, since one of the significant devices in his treatment of the form is unintentional self-revelation."
via THE GUARDIAN |
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What Sparks Poetry:
Karen An-hwei Lee on Mei-mei Berssenbrugge’s “Farolita”
"Today, as I re-read this poem, I enjoy the way it yields to light, as if the paper strip changes into a page, and the page of the poem into a farolita, or vice versa. In this way, it’s mostly about light without saying the word light more than once. It blurs the boundaries of thingness and mystery, obliquely pointing us to tangible and intangible realms of knowing." |
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