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Wallace Stevens, "Jumbo" (at Lime Tree)

One way to try imagining the kind of mind that could produce this poem--or for that matter, to try to understand what that mind was getting at--is to type it out yourself, as I just have.

At the very least, such an exercise makes you more aware of the delicate phonic, lexical, and rhetorical balances that make up a good deal of the poem's structure.

Or something like that. Anyway, it's good to copy out any poem you are studying. Make yourself look at every letter. And if it's too long to copy, it's probably too long.

This entry was posted by eeksypeeksy on Monday, May 17, 2004 at 11:53 AM. You can skip to the end and leave a response.

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