...them. I have tried to do my work in the same spirit. I shall feel thankful for this gift to my death. Ars Poetica A poem should be palpable and mute As...ledges where the moss has grown — A poem should be wordlc-ss As the flight of birds. A poem should be motionless in time As the moon climbs: Leaving,...

...poorer bone. They cannot lift my heart although They strain forever at the stone. Amanda Benjamin Hall ARS POETICA A POEM should be palpable and mute As...ledges where the moss has grown — A poem should be motionless in time As the moon climbs Leaving, as the moon releases Twig by twig the night entangled...

...writing." "That's right! All are right!" Then I wrote parts of Archibald MacLeish's poem on the blackboard: A poem should be wordless As the flight of birds....poem should be motionless in time As the moon climbs. A poem should not mean But be. I explain to my students that imagination is the soul of creative writing....

...the old men sit — Avoid the gas-light on the winding stair. She who climbs beside you is not there. ARS POETICA A poem should be palpable and mute As...Dumb As old medallions to the thumb, Silent as the sleeve-wom stone Of casement ledges where the moss has grown A poem should be wordless As the flight...

...(1939) catches well this esthetic need for freedom from conventional verbal categories in his lines, A poem should be palpable and mute As a globed fruit...A poem should be wordless As the flight of birds. The problems of specifying the properties of objects that mediate a common categorizing response become...

...the classic advertising manner, by associating it with objects already appraised or valued highly: A poem should be palpable and mute As a globed fruit....Dumb As old medallions to the thumb. Silent as the sleeve- worn stone Of casement ledges where the moss has grown — A poem should be wordless As the...

...of course. One of the most oft-quoted poetic definitions of poetry itself is a series of paradoxes: A poem should be palpable and mute As a globed fruit,...A poem should be wordless As the flight of birds. And paradox remains a stock-in-trade of love poetry. James Reaney paradoxically undercuts the idea...

...widowed bride. Something touched me deep inside The day the music died. MacLEISH Archibald 1892 1982 6748 fallaclous. sleeve- worn stone Of casement ledges where the moss has grown A poem should be wordless As the flight...

...are created and understood. Consider now the opening lines of a poem by Archibald MacLeish entitled Ars Poetica: A poem should be palpable and mute As...A poem should be wordless As the flight of birds. In these few lines, MacLeish comments on the possibility that poems may be metaphorically understood...

...literary work. Thus, readers presumably determine the meaning of the opening lines of MacLeish's poem "Ars Poetica" - A poem should be palpable and mute /As a globed fruit - based on the recognition of certain intentions that they believe MacLeish wishes them to recover....