11 jul 2005

Or spozin I wrote out a paraphrase before I wrote the poem. I wouldn't do this of course, but I supposing I did versify some more abstract content I had arrived at before the fact. That would be interesting precisely because it is so foreign to the way we think about poetry nowadays. There would be two texts, in a certain relationship to each other. It would be rash to conclude that the first text was the "intentional meaning" of the second.

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Henry Gould dijo...

This was Yeats' standard procedure. Some of his prose sketches - they are like miniature plot summaries - have been published.