Re: dogs OR Re: e.e.c.
citycabn (citycabn@gateway.net)
Thu, 21 Oct 1999 12:26:29 -0700
Having been battered about by many of the posts of the past two days, I
sought refuge at the ocean. But I must say Elizabeth's clear articulation
of what e.e.c. is doing in his poems will send me back to someone I
mistakenly had dismissed as a passing fancy.
--Bruce
-----Elizabeth writes:
>>
>> I have never been able to
>>explain my love for ee cummings before this moment, but I believe in the
>>context of this conversation, I can. Old edward estlin, by manipulating
>>language in such a way that shifts focus from denotative meaning to
>>connotative, operates on a level beyond the established symbols I rely on.
>>His work somehow seems to break up the structure in which these symbols
>>exist, and in the process break lose the experience. Once it happens,
then
>>I develop a new connotative meaning for whatever words he has used, and
the
>>experience can't be duplicated with the same peice of poetry, but his work
>>is so dense, and there is so much of it, that I come across that same
>>experience again and again. I have no idea if that makes sense to anyone
>>or not, and I hope to God that by attempting to explain it now I haven't
>>removed the possibility of it happening again. I truly beleive that there
>>is feeling outside of language, but as adults, we experience it very
>>infrequently.
>>